Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I have some questions about starting daemons in a chroot environment or rather about starting schroot on bootup. The reason I want to do this is to clean up my server. It's a Squeeze with an AMD64 kernel from backports. Some packages are from testing which gives me problems because of

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks for your answer, Bob! On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:28:52 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Installed sid $ sudo debootstrap sid /srv/chroot/sid/ http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ I haven't submitted a bug yet but I always have problems with sysvinit postinst depending upon ischroot and ischroot

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:26PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: I have some questions about starting daemons in a chroot environment or rather about starting schroot on bootup. The reason I want to do this is to clean up my server. It's

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
schroot or chroot before. So you're advice is helpful for sure :-) Ramon Hofer wrote: The program I'd like to jail is a daemon which means I should use the longer script. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything about the initscript ID in the policy-rc.d documentation. The ID is simply the name

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:32:14 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:49PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:26PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: I have some questions about starting daemons in a chroot

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:54:58 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: I found what I did wrong: In the init.d script I used chroot instead of schroot: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Lamy4K4a Could you please help me with the correct command? Instead of `chroot /srv/chroot/sid /etc/init.d/sabnzbdplus start

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 04:52:24PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:54:58 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: I found what I did wrong: In the init.d script I used chroot instead of schroot: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i

Re: Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On 22/07/2012 8:49 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 07:41:32 -0400, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: I am trying to put together a 2U storage server for data. I have previously invested in NAS equipment such as the Netgear NAS 1100 that I have been disappointed in to say the least - data write

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Son, 2012-07-22 at 15:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Firstly, add schroot to Required-(Start|Stop), since you do need it to be set up prior to starting new sessions

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:18 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:54:58AM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:32:14 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:49PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote

Re: Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 04:52 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/22/2012 10:17 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: But if you multiply the price of five Netgear NV+ (which each holds four disks) ~ CHF 300.-- each then this isn't what I'd call cheap. And even if your self built (take lots of pride

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 11:34 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 06:31:48PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:18 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:54:58AM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Is there another one which I can use to set specific

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 10:25 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 05:27:14PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Son, 2012-07-22 at 15:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 19:15 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 06:27:22PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: I now changed the stop function to (added the if test) to get rid of error messages when running `sid-sabnzbdplus stop` twice: stop_sab() { if [ -f /var/lib/schroot

Re: Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:05:45 -0400, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: I am thinking of the Norco 16/20 hotswap and a 2x operton QC CPU m/b but wasnt sure what a solid performing m/b would be that will work well with the LSI? Any thoughts? Thanks my hands are now itching for this project to be completed

Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'm using Debian Squeeze and would like to use a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 as controller for a software raid. Unfortunately the system crashes when I try creating a filesystem on the md device. Here's the full output of lshw: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=C900cBnN The controller is

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:31:34 +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2012 11:53:27 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: I'm using Debian Squeeze and would like to use a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 as controller for a software raid. Unfortunately the system crashes when I try creating a filesystem on the md

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 09:35:36 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: On 2012-05-01 11:53:27, Ramon Hofer wrote: I'm using Debian Squeeze and would like to use a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 as controller for a software raid. I have a different SuperMicro board and it can run in two different modes, forget

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 14:54:24 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Do you remember how you updated the firmware? I have just got an answer from supermicro: You can create bootable USB stick with this utility (windows only) http://download.softpedia.ro/dl/ f82c4af1fbe1f35565d91a87dedd9c5b/4e083d83

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 16:16:07 +, Camaleón wrote: Can you recommend something better? It was very nice because it's quite cheap and I don't need a hardware raid card. Cheap and nice do not usually came together, or to put it well, cheap and good performance do not usually match :-)

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 10:57:47 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/1/2012 6:53 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: Hi all I'm using Debian Squeeze and would like to use a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 as controller for a software raid. The mvsas Linux driver has never been ready for production, unless things

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
Sorry I hit ctrl + enter or something and the message went out... On Tue, 01 May 2012 17:29:17 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: But I'm confused about the two different versions too. lspci shows: 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV64460/64461/64462 System Controller

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-02 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:36 +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2012 17:29:17 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2012 16:16:07 +, Camaleón wrote: What kind of hardware do you have (motherboard brand and model) and what kind of hard disk controller do you need, what are your

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-02 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43:13 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/1/2012 12:37 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: I have the RPC-4220 case with 20 howswap slots. You should have mentioned this sooner, as there is a better solution than buying 3 of the 9211-8i, which is $239*3= $717. And you end up

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Wed, 02 May 2012 17:49:53 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 02 May 2012 16:19:40 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:36 +, Camaleón wrote: Ah, okay. This one: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core/P67/C7P67.cfm The board has no SAS ports

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 16:30:00 +, Camaleón wrote: snipped In brief, yes, that card seems one of those you can consider to be safe enough to don't have many problems :-P This sounds very good :-) Mmm, yes. I can't tell for that specific model but LSI is a good manufacturer for HBA

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 12:21:17 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/2/2012 11:30 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43:13 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/1/2012 12:37 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: I have the RPC-4220 case with 20 howswap slots. You should have mentioned this sooner

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:05:55 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: snipped His disks are fine. The Marvell SAS driver is problem. This is a thoroughly documented. The mvsas driver is simply crap. Something that the Supermicro support told me just came back into my mind and worries me: With the

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-04 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 20:27:02 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2012 18:27:55 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2012 16:30:00 +, Camaleón wrote: snipped 2/ The card's manufacturer provides a set of CLI tools (also GUI/web based) to control all of the aspects of the RAID

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-05 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:38:10 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 04 May 2012 10:48:36 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2012 20:27:02 +, Camaleón wrote: There's some useful information in one of the links I sent before: http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins Maybe I miss

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 04:00:46 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/3/2012 1:27 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: snipped mdraid is quite tolerant with drive errors before it finally kicks them offline. Using the firmware RAID on this LSI card, any drive showing flaky behavior will be kicked very quickly

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:15:22 +, Camaleón wrote: snipped Just a note of caution here. RAID 5 with big hard disks can be a real pain and a real problem. If one of the arrays go down, the rebuilding operation can take up to days (depending on the controller's capacity) and if while the

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:18:33 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 06 May 2012 11:46:21 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:15:22 +, Camaleón wrote: On the other hand it isn't possible to have different disk sizes in a raid 6 neither. I think yes, that you can, but only

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:47:59 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:35:40 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:18:33 +, Camaleón wrote: If your hard disk capacity is ~1.5 TiB then you can get 3 partitions from there of ~500 GiB of size (e.g., sda1, sda2 and sda3

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 15:40:50 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 06 May 2012 14:52:19 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:47:59 +, Camaleón wrote: Then I put the 28 partitions (4x3 + 4x4) in a raid 6? Then you can pair/mix the partitions as you prefer (when using mdadm

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 18:10:41 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 06 May 2012 17:44:54 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sun, 06 May 2012 15:40:50 +, Camaleón wrote: Okay. And how much space are you planning to handle? Do you prefer a big pool to store data or you prefer using small chunks

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-08 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 07 May 2012 14:35:31 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) For the raided space, yes, but still you can redistribute the disk better. Ah yes, this is true. (...) I'd like using green drives for this system. So low power consumption is a thing I try keep low. And until now they worked

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-08 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:27:26 +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2012 09:22:56 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2012 14:35:31 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) Those green disks can be good for using them as stand-alone devices for user backup/archiving but not for 24/365 nor

chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'm planning on setting up my new media server. So I was thinking of putting mythbackend, logitech media server, rtorrent, nfs, samba, etc. into virtual machines. There's a discussion in the mythtv-users mailing list about virtual machines. Especially this post got me thinking:

Re: chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 15 May 2012 11:45:58 +0200, David Sastre Medina wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:13:23PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Hi all I'm planning on setting up my new media server. So I was thinking of putting mythbackend, logitech media server, rtorrent, nfs, samba, etc. into virtual

LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this message on the screen: megasas: INIT adapter done hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 7 hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 8 I also got the

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 08:39:57 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Ramon Hofer ramonho...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hi all I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this message on the screen

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:51 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this message on the screen: megasas: INIT adapter done hub

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: After that I would look to see if something isn't shorting out a USB port. Yes, USB is the cause of the over-current errors, which is plainly evident in his screen shot. But we don't yet

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 18:28:05 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/18/2012 4:55 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just to try). You need to explain this in detail: installed on raid1 Installed onto what raid1? Does this mean you created an mdadm raid1

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:54 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/18/2012 9:23 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: Hi all I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this message on the screen: megasas: INIT adapter done hub 4

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: After that I would look to see if something isn't shorting out a USB port. Yes, USB

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 09:09:52 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 21:55:36 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: Are you running Squeeze? Yes, sorry forgot to mention. I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just to try). Today

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 10:33:06 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:54 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Post your FW version here. It's likely pretty recent already. The FW version is 2.70.04-0862. I have a little confusion with the versioning from LSI. On their homepage [1

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:41:33 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) I have tried to check if I can see something in the mb BIOS to see if it can tell me anything about the connected hardware. But I didn't find anything in the PCI settings. Mmm, have you tried to set a RAID level instead using JBOD?

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I hoped you could jump in and help me :-) I'm actively working on it, have been for a couple of hours on and off. I'm reading

Wheezy removed ifupdown

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all After upgrading the packages in Wheezy amd64 I can't connect to the network anymore. This is on my htpc where I only have xbmc running. So no gnome, kde, etc. Every other computer in the network has no problems. I can't even ping localhost. It says connect: Network is unreachable. What

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I hoped you could jump in and help me :-) I'm actively working on it, have been for a couple of hours on and off. I'm reading

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:35:58 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/19

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:59:53 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: I was able to set a RAID1 in the WebBIOS and set the bootable option. But I'm not sure if the setting was accepted. Even though when I set the bootable option again the WebBIOS tells me

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: There were no problems upgrading the fw :-) Unfortunately it didn't solve he problem. Grrr. 3. Go into the mobo BIOS and set and test these options: Quiet Boot

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:27:21 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 5/20/2012 9:24 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-29 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: (...) Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS show the disk device, RAID level, and its size? What we need to figure out is whether this is a BIOS problem at this point or a Debian

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 29 May 2012 20:49:32 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 5/29/2012 7:09 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: (...) Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS show

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
TV card(s) It would be nice if it had a connector for the lan chassis LEDs :-) Best regards Ramon On Wed, 30 May 2012 17:38:01 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 5/30/2012 4:52 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Tue, 29 May 2012 20:49:32 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-10 Thread Ramon Hofer
A situation update: Mounted the mobo with the CPU and RAM, attached the PSU, the OS SATA disk, the LSI and expander as well as the graphics card. There are no disks attached to the expander because I put them again into the old NAS and backing up the data from the 1.5 TB disks to it. Then I

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 6/10/2012 9:00 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: A situation update: Mounted the mobo with the CPU and RAM, attached the PSU, the OS SATA disk, the LSI and expander as well as the graphics card. There are no disks

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: (...) You create two 4 drive md RAID5 arrays, one composed of the four identical 1.5TB drives and the other composed of the four identical 2TB drives. Then concatenate the two arrays together into an md --linear

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:35:57 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Hmm, probably I have to create a raid5 with the four empty 2 TB disks attached to the LSI. Then: ~$ mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n1 -l linear /dev/md1 WTF? I also had to add --force to create the array with one

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 6/12/2012 8:40 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Try the Wheezy installer. Try OpenSuSE. Try Fedora. If any of these work without

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:29:25 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 6/13/2012 2:22 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: This chain is so long I'm going to liberally snip lots of stuff already covered. Hope

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Couldn't hurt. And while you're at it, mount with inode64 in your fstab immediately after you create the XFS. You were running with inode32, which sticks all the inodes at the front of AG0 causing lots of seeks.

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 6/14/2012 4:51 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: These commands don't match the pastebin. The pastebin shows you creating a 4 disk RAID5 as /dev/md0. Really :-? That kind of (wrong) analysis is one of the many

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 6/15/2012 8:36 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: First of all I tried to set the raid5 with the WD 20EARS and didn't have much luck. They led to fail events when mdadm builds the array. They worked in my Netgear NV

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-16 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Well lets look at this more closely. The disks may not be bad. How old are they? Send me your dmesg output: Sorry I forgot to write the last time: The WD20EARS I have bough between 14. Dec 2010 and 01. Oct 2011.

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-17 Thread Ramon Hofer
I'm again having problems with the disks getting kicked out of the array :-o First of all the old WD green 2TB disk which was marked failed also makes problems in the Netgear ReadyNas. I will see if I still have warranty and try to get a new one. But the other issue scares me a bit ;-) Here's

Recovering nested raid (was LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot)

2012-06-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:46:55 +0200 Ramon Hofer ramonho...@bluewin.ch wrote: I'm again having problems with the disks getting kicked out of the array :-o I've already asked this before on the debian list and got an answer. But I'm not sure if I should do this. Here's a link to my old problem

Reason to use a partition

2012-07-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I have accidentally found that it's possible to use a whole disk instead of a partition spanning a whole disk. I have two 2 TB disks. One (sdi) has a partition with jfs and the other (sdk) has xfs directly on the disk: /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings

Re: Reason to use a partition

2012-07-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:04 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Ramon, Ramon Hofer ramonho...@bluewin.ch wrote: /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk xfs1.9T 1.9T 3.3G 100% /mnt/recordings_temp Is there a reason why one should use a partition

Re: Reason to use a partition

2012-07-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Die, 2012-07-03 at 03:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/3/2012 3:16 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:04 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Ramon, Ramon Hofer ramonho...@bluewin.ch wrote: /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk

ivtv driver in Wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64

2013-01-05 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I have updated my media server to Wheezy and added a new TV capture card. The one I'm using for some time now is an analogue Hauppauge PVR-500 and I added a DigitalDevices Cine C/T with DuoFlex C/T a quad DVB-C capture card some days ago. With the old kernel: $ uname -a Linux

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-05 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi war_dhan What brand and type is your laptop? On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:58:03 +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: questions: without opening the laptop where can i find info about number of pins voltage capacity of my memory module ? [ i am scared to open laptop ]. Usually there's a cover to

Re: ivtv driver in Wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64

2013-01-05 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks for your answer, Sven! On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:02:33 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: The obvious difference to the dmesg with the old kernel is that there are no messages from the ivtv module. Is that module loaded? If not, what happens if you modprobe it manually? The module isn't

Re: ivtv driver in Wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64

2013-01-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:09:11 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-01-05 19:10 +0100, Ramon Hofer wrote: When I try to load it I get # modprobe ivtv libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:174 kmod_module_parse_depline: ctx=0x7fc95a92e010 path=/lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers

Sync Orage and Android (via calendarserver?)

2013-03-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'm using Orage calendar on my Desktop. I have an Android tablet which I'd like to keep in sync with Orage. My desktop machine doesn't run all the time but I have a home server which does. Therefore I'd like to put the shared calendar data on the server so that both the desktop and the

SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'd like to spin down all my sata hdds except the system drive with hdparm. Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. When I put the discs to sleep manually with sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sdc it works. But

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. To speed up testing I have set spindown_tim = 1 but the drives still stays active... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:26:13 +0100, Lou wrote: Hallo Ramon, Thanks for your reply Lou! On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 which should spin down all the drives after 30 minutes. To speed up

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:19:28 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:26:13 +0100, Lou wrote: Hallo Ramon, Thanks for your reply Lou! On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:49:42 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Therefore I uncommented the spindown_time line and set the value to 241 which

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:58:33 +0100, Lou wrote: On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Ramon Hofer wrote: Btw: As you didn't write anything else hdparm should have no problem spinning down sata drives? Do you know if I can check the hdparm setting somewhere? Like hdparm -C to show me the spindown setting

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-26 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:39:16 +0100, Lou wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:14:31 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Maybe this is important: I use Squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, hdparm v9.32, the drive sdc is a WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and the mainboard an ASUS P7P55D. It's very good you mention

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-27 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks alot for all the infos. Very helpful! I'll try that this evening :-) On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:57:03 +0100, Lou wrote: Maybe you can choose a solution where you unmount the array before you put them to sleep, just to be on the save side? I never used this, since I prefer to shutdown a

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-27 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:39:16 +0100, Lou wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:14:31 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: Maybe this is important: I use Squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, hdparm v9.32, the drive sdc is a WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and the mainboard an ASUS P7P55D. It's very good you mention

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-28 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:55:06 +0100, Lou wrote: Please check the wdc link [1] I gave you again, WD20EARS is on the list. The wiki article can't keep up all the time with newer green series coming out. Ups, my fault. Thank you very much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

WLAN access point with Alix board from PC Engines

2011-11-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I have an AMD Geode Alix board from PC Engines [1] which I'm planning to setup as WLAN access point. The board has two miniPCI slots. So far I've read that I can't just use any WLAN card. It has to be capable of the master mode? Does anybody have experience with miniPCI master WLAN

WLAN Access Point with Intel 4965 network controller

2012-01-04 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'm using Squeeze with 2.6.32-5-686 and I'm trying to configure my Thinkpad X61s to act as WLAN Access Point. It has an Intel 4965 chipset: # lspci 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) I tried to follow this

Re: WLAN Access Point with Intel 4965 network controller

2012-01-05 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:38:05 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:32:02 + (UTC) Ramon Hofer ramonho...@bluewin.ch wrote: I'm using Squeeze with 2.6.32-5-686 and I'm trying to configure my Thinkpad X61s to act as WLAN Access Point. It has an Intel 4965 chipset: # lspci 03

Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

2012-01-08 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I used a Shuttle XS35GTV2 as XBMC frontend with OpenELEC. Since some time it lost its Network connection (I use ethernet not WLAN). I have no clue why this happend. I suggest it was due to the OpenELEC update 1.02. Since I'd like to use XBMC as MythTV frontend too I want to install

Re: Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

2012-01-09 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks alot for you answer Andrei! On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:07:28 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 08 ian 12, 17:18:57, Ramon Hofer wrote: Hi all I used a Shuttle XS35GTV2 as XBMC frontend with OpenELEC. Since some time it lost its Network connection (I use ethernet not WLAN). I have

Re: Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

2012-01-10 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:34:29 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 09 ian 12, 16:07:38, Ramon Hofer wrote: I can skip the network setup of netinst. But I can't skip the part when I have to choose a Debian mirror? It should be possible. Worst case the Back button should get you to a menu

Re: Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

2012-01-10 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:01:16 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 10 ian 12, 16:22:10, Ramon Hofer wrote: You wrote in your first answer I should update to the newest kernel. At the moment is 2.6.32-5-amd64 installed. How can I do that without a network connection? USB sticks can be very

Re: Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

2012-01-11 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:09:21 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:01:16 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 10 ian 12, 16:22:10, Ramon Hofer wrote: You wrote in your first answer I should update to the newest kernel. At the moment is 2.6.32-5-amd64 installed. How can I do

Re: Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

2012-01-11 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:30:56 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 11 ian 12, 19:31:18, Ramon Hofer wrote: dmesg http://pastebin.com/sBtbX2T7 What I'm missing in your dmesg is a Link is Up... notice. Please make sure you have the correct ethernet cable and the link led is on. You might

Re: Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

2012-01-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:46:17 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 11 ian 12, 23:56:56, Ramon Hofer wrote: Unfortunately there are no leds on the Shuttle. When I first noticed the problem the link leds on the switch weren't on. Is that led still off? Yes, the leds are still off. Then I

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