Re: simple freebsd router for home use

On 18/11/2016 21:45, Martin Cermak wrote: I think of creating a simple router for home use with FreeBSD. Just for fun. I imagine a single printed circuit board with passive cooling, with 3+ 100+ Mbit/s ethernet ports. I used a Raspberry Pi (just for fun) doing this a few years ago. It only has

Re: SSD errors

On 13/04/2017 21:59, heasley wrote: When I push a lot of data to them, such as an rsync, I receive errors like the below. If I move drives between slots, it seems to follow the chassis slots, those closest to the power supply, but I'm not positive about this. I suppose the questions for list

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

On 10/08/2017 15:01, Alan Somers wrote: Really interesting answer Alan, thank you very much ! Slightly off-topic but I take this opportunity, how do you check SAS drives health ? I personally cron a background long test every 2 weeks (using smartmontools). I did not experience SAS drive error

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

On 09/08/2017 16:59, Alan Somers wrote: On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Mikhail T. wrote: My server has 8 "hot-plug" slots, that can accept both SATA and SAS drives. SATA ones tend to be cheaper for the same features (like cache-sizes), what am I getting for the extra

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

On 06/11/2017 10:09, Zane C. B-H. wrote: In my years of doing decade plus of DC work, I've seen both SAS and SATA drives flake and render systems in operable till the offending drive is removed. My experience too. For Supermicro it will vary between backplanes. Very true indeed. If they

Re: Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ?

On 03/01/2018 20:27, John Lyon wrote: - Lack of awareness (the RealTek website lists their drivers as being for FreeBSD 8.x but they are really for 11.x and RealTek just never updated their site) IME NIC drivers work pretty well across releases, including moving the latest ones back to

Re: Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ?

On 03/01/2018 21:51, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Some people cuss at Broadcom, some people swear by them. I don't own any of there cards, but I have never had problems with the inbuilt broadcom nics in any of my dell servers. I've been using Broadcom for years, integrated on Dell motherboards,

Re: When is sataIII actually sataIII?

On 2018-11-01 16:24, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Thu, Nov 1, 2018, at 8:45 AM, spaml...@mail-on.us wrote: I have another Sata 3 drive on the second Sata 3 port, that FreeBSD actually treats as what it is: ada1 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 ada1: ACS-2 ATA SATA 3.x device ada1: Serial

Re: When is sataIII actually sataIII?

On 2018-11-01 13:45, spaml...@mail-on.us wrote: On 2018-11-01 03:59, Frank Leonhardt (M) wrote: On 1 November 2018 05:14:35 GMT+00:00, spaml...@mail-on.us wrote: Hi all, I picked out, and put together some hardware for a new FreeBSD powered box. I chose a WD blue drive I knew was pretty zippy

Re: FreeBSD boot problem with Intel Atom C5000 Parker Ridge

On 11/10/2023 15:54, Jan Bramkamp wrote: On 28.07.23 11:31, Thomas Niedermeier wrote: Hi, I'm writing you about some issue I had while testing a Atom SoC Board. It is equipped with the new generation Intel C5000 Parker Ridge series. In this specific case the Intel Atom Processor C5315. A

Re: WD Blue 510 SSD and strange write performance

"CAM status: SCSI Status Error" suggests to me that the drive was just too busy when asked. I'm not saying it's nothing to worry about, but neither am I saying it is.

Re: WD Blue 510 SSD and strange write performance

Flash storage is complicated. I doubt there's a huge cache in them, as as it would be volatile it'd be a big no-no for synchronous writes. The OS could cache it, of course. And if you're using ZFS then all bets are off. ZFS guarantees (for POSIX) that a synchronous write goes to non volatile

Re: WD Blue 510 SSD and strange write performance

Sorry - not that deeply into modern SSD (never written a driver for one), but based on my understanding your TRIM theory makes sense to me. I'd try turning it off. It does seem to be an ongoing source of snafus. I did use WD Blue SSDs but I suspect they vary quite a bit. I've had rather too

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

On 9 August 2017 16:29:52 BST, Josh Paetzel <j...@tcbug.org> wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 9, 2017, at 09:55 AM, Frank Leonhardt (m) wrote: >> Simple answer is to use either. You're running FreeBSD with ZFS, >right? >> BSD will hot plug anything. I suspect 'hot plug' rela

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

Simple answer is to use either. You're running FreeBSD with ZFS, right? BSD will hot plug anything. I suspect 'hot plug' relates to Microsoft workaround hardware RAID. Hot plug enclosures will also let the host know a drive has been pulled. Otherwise ZFS won't know whether it was pulled or is

Fwd: Re: Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ?

Original Message From: "Frank Leonhardt (m)" <fra...@fjl.co.uk> Sent: 2 January 2018 21:21:32 GMT+00:00 To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <r...@tristatelogic.com> Subject: Re: Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ? On 2 January 20

Re: When is sataIII actually sataIII?

On 1 November 2018 05:14:35 GMT+00:00, spaml...@mail-on.us wrote: >Hi all, >I picked out, and put together some hardware for a new FreeBSD >powered box. I chose a WD blue drive I knew was pretty zippy. >But I was quite disappointed to discover that FreeBSD wouldn't >support it @6Gb. >The