Re: FreeBSD-AMD64 on Xeon MP

2008-10-20 Thread Eirik Øverby
Hi, Hi all, I try to run FreeBSD-7-AMD64 on a Quad Xeon (Xeon MP 7320) and 32GB RAM. The Board is a X7QC3 by supermicro and the installation is done on another system, updated and plugged to this system. So I have a drive with 7-STABLE compiled today. The last line I see from

Controlling NIC bandwidth via IFG?

2008-10-20 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I am looking for a NIC (supported by FreeBSD) which has ability to set IFG (Inter Frame Gap) bigger than default (960ns for 100Mbit/s, 96ns for 1Gbit/s). I would like to decrease the NIC bandwidth (burst rate) using this way to ~40Mbit/s.

sata hotswap on Intel ICH7

2008-10-20 Thread Steve Franks
Just curious if this works, what I need to do, etc, good/bad experiences... Since I'm actually talking about internal drives, does cabling matter, is the power supposed to mate before/after data, etc? Doesn't seem to be much on the subject in the handbook or man atacontrol. I assume we've had

Re: sata hotswap on Intel ICH7

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:09:19AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: It also requires that you be using SATA in Enhanced mode, or under AHCI. Using SATA in Emulation or Compatible mode (e.g. a 2-channel SATA controller will assign disks as ata0-master and ata0-slave) will not work how you