ICH6 SATA RAID support

2005-04-05 Thread Vladimir Terziev
Hi hackers, could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support in FreeBSD ? I have plans to buy a machine which motherboard has ICH6 SATA RAID integrated and i want to know whether i will be able to run FreeBSD on it. Thanks in advance!

Re: ICH6 SATA RAID support

2005-04-05 Thread Søren Schmidt
Vladimir Terziev wrote: Hi hackers, could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support in FreeBSD ? I have plans to buy a machine which motherboard has ICH6 SATA RAID integrated and i want to know whether i will be able to run FreeBSD on it. The hardware part is

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-05 Thread Danny Braniss
All, I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable option for creating SANs? refrase question. I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. for one, it depends on how deep are your

Re: C programming question

2005-04-05 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: I need some help understanding some C code. int (*if_ioctl) (struct ifnet *, int, caddr_t); int (*if_watchdog) (int); Can someone break down these declarations (if that's what they are)? Is this a form of

Re: C programming question

2005-04-05 Thread gilles chehade
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:43:21AM -0700, Matt wrote: I need some help understanding some C code. int (*if_ioctl) (struct ifnet *, int, caddr_t); int (*if_watchdog) (int); Can someone break down these declarations (if that's what they are)? Is this a form of

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-05 Thread John Pettitt
Justin Bennett wrote: All, I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable option for creating SANs? I want to move away from tape backups, and have numerous production FreeBSD machines that I need to back up data from. Any other ideas for a disk to disk backup

Re: Probing Devices

2005-04-05 Thread Stas Myasnikov
Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:55:46 -0700 (PDT), Srinivasa R Yarrakonda [EMAIL PROTECTED] (): I am trying to install FreeBSD on the second hard disk of my windows PC. I have burned the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso onto a CD. When I restart the computer it reads the boot CDROM and then reports Probing Device

Re: C programming question

2005-04-05 Thread Dunceor .
Since freebsd-hackers also was included in the cc list in the first mail I guess the port exist in FreeBSD. On Apr 5, 2005 10:45 AM, Alexander von Gernler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-04 20:55]: The cdecl command (ports/devel/cutils) is good as decoding

Re: Probing Devices

2005-04-05 Thread Alexey Vesnin
Stas Myasnikov wrote: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:55:46 -0700 (PDT), Srinivasa R Yarrakonda [EMAIL PROTECTED] (): I am trying to install FreeBSD on the second hard disk of my windows PC. I have burned the 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso onto a CD. When I restart the computer it reads the boot CDROM and then

Kernel [memory] tweaking question

2005-04-05 Thread ray
I'm doing some tweaking on my kernel tonight (FreeBSD 5.3) and I'm trying to get a better grip on what the following lines do and what impact they could have to the overall performance of a server: options SHMALL= options SHMMAX= options SHMMAXPGS= options SHMMIN=

CVSup and Attic files

2005-04-05 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
I've noticed some strange behavior suddenly out of CVSup. I refuse all Attic files in ports, and that doesn't seem to be working right all of a sudden. My best guess is that it's something due to the recent patch to cvsupd to handle INDEX issues, since I can't think of anything else that would

Re: ICH6 SATA RAID support

2005-04-05 Thread Scott Long
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Vladimir Terziev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: could someone tell me what is the status of ICH6 SATA RAID support in FreeBSD? The ICH6R is an Intel MatrixRAID chipset and is fully supported in -CURRENT. DES ICH6R is just like ICH5R in that it's just a dumb ATA/SATA

RE: CVSup and Attic files

2005-04-05 Thread John Polstra
On 05-Apr-2005 Matthew D. Fuller wrote: I've noticed some strange behavior suddenly out of CVSup. I refuse all Attic files in ports, and that doesn't seem to be working right all of a sudden. My best guess is that it's something due to the recent patch to cvsupd to handle INDEX issues,

Re: How the experts do it? (kernel dev)

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 07:37:22AM +, klowd9 - wrote: I would like to setup a virtual machine for developing and debugging the kernel, perhaps with the possibility of debugging from the host os to the guest system. Which software would best suite this: vmware, bochs, qemu ? Keep in mind