Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-21 Thread David Davis
Hi Guys, I just wanted to mention that George's changes should be incorporated into the official FreeNAS build of 0.7 (it's RC1 right now) when it comes out, so using our custom image should only be a temporary thing should you choose to go the A2000 route. Regards, David Davis Software

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-20 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/16/09 6:12 PM, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love to hear about any test results you may get comparing software with hardware raid. I received the hardware yesterday. There was a last minute change due to cost. Instead of getting 4x 2TB drives I opted for 6x 1TB

FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Aleksandr Miroslav
I would like to setup a home fileserver running FreeNAS (which itself runs on FreeBSD 7.2). Can someone recommend hardware for this? I know I'd have to get 3 harddrives. Two will be at home running RAID1, and the third will be mirrored about once per quarter and brought offsite. What kind

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Aleksandr Miroslav
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: What kind of RAID chassis, computer system should I get for this setup? Would a soekris be sufficient, or is that overkill? Or should I just buy a barebones headless desktop PC (Dell has them cheap now for $241)

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/19/09, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: What kind of RAID chassis, computer system should I get for this setup? Would a soekris be sufficient, or is that overkill? Or should I just buy a

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: I would like to setup a home fileserver running FreeNAS (which itself runs on FreeBSD 7.2). Can someone recommend hardware for this? I know I'd have to get 3 harddrives. Two will be at home running RAID1, and the third will be mirrored about once per quarter

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: I would like to setup a home fileserver running FreeNAS (which itself runs on FreeBSD 7.2). Can someone recommend hardware for this? I know I'd have to get 3 harddrives. Two will be at home running RAID1, and the third will be mirrored about

Re: FreeNAS file server...which hardware to choose?

2009-07-19 Thread George Hartzell
Tim Judd writes: On 7/19/09, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: What kind of RAID chassis, computer system should I get for this setup? Would a soekris be sufficient, or is that overkill?

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-16 Thread Maxim Khitrov
' drives. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSQuickStartGuide I guess the last question I'll ask (as any more may uncover my ignorance) is if you need to use hardware RAID at all?  It seems both UFS2 and ZFS can do software RAID which seems to be quite reasonable with respect to performance

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
Richard Mahlerwein wrote: With 4 drives, you could get much, much higher performance out of RAID10 (which is alternatively called RAID0+1 or RAID1+0 depending on the manufacturer Uh -- no. RAID10 and RAID0+1 are superficially similar but quite different things. The main differentiator is

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-14 Thread Adam Townsend
A bit of reading shows that ZFS, if it's stable enough, has some really great features that would be nice on such a large pile o' drives. See http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSQuickStartGuide I guess the last question I'll ask (as any more may uncover my ignorance) is if you need to use hardware

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-14 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6? To: mahle...@yahoo.com Cc: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 4:23

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: From: Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com Subject: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6? To: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 11:47 PM Hello all, I'm about to build a new file server

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6? To: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 1:29 PM --- On Sun, 7/12/09, Maxim Khitrov

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread Maxim Khitrov
, if necessary. For data security, I can't answer for the UFS2 vs. ZFS.  For hardware setup, let me amend everything I said above with the following: Since you are seriously focusing on data integrity, ignore everything I said but make sure you have good backups!  :) Sorry, -Rich No problem

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: From: Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com Subject: Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6? To: mahle...@yahoo.com Cc: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 2:02 PM On Mon, Jul 13, 2009

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Richard Mahlerweinmahle...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: From: Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com Subject: Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6? To: mahle...@yahoo.com Cc: Free BSD Questions list freebsd

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/13/09 3:23 PM, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Richard Mahlerweinmahle...@yahoo.com wrote: I guess the last question I'll ask (as any more may uncover my ignorance) is if you need to use hardware RAID at all? It seems both UFS2 and ZFS can do

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: From: Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com Subject: Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6? To: mahle...@yahoo.com Cc: Free BSD Questions list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 3:23 PM On Mon, Jul 13, 2009

Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-13 Thread FBSD UG
hardware RAID at all? It seems both UFS2 and ZFS can do software RAID which seems to be quite reasonable with respect to performance and in many ways seems to be more robust since it is a bit more portable (no specialized hardware). I've thought about this one a lot. In my case, the hard drives

ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6?

2009-07-12 Thread Maxim Khitrov
Hello all, I'm about to build a new file server using 3ware 9690SA-8E controller and 4x Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB drives in RAID6. It is likely to grow in the future up to 10TB. I may use FreeBSD 8 on this one, since the release will likely be made by the time this server goes into production.

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Certified Hardware

2009-06-23 Thread Thompson, Rhett
Hi, Is it possible for you to provide us with an updated hardware certified vendor list for FreeBsd. We would like to know if FreeBSD is supported on HP Blades and which models, network cards, HBA cards for connecting to SAN's. Any help will be greatly appreciated. We need

Re: Certified Hardware

2009-06-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Thompson, Rhettrhett.thomp...@soroc.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible for you to provide us with an updated hardware certified vendor list for FreeBsd.   We would like to know if FreeBSD is supported on HP Blades and which models, network cards, HBA cards

Re: Certified Hardware

2009-06-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 03:18:33PM -0400, Thompson, Rhett wrote: Is it possible for you to provide us with an updated hardware certified vendor list for FreeBsd. There is no such thing, AFAIK. The volunteers who form the FreeBSD project spend their time improving FreeBSD, not doing formal

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in, and installed FreeBSD-7.1. My only problem so far has been a BIOS issue, but IBM site-support has been great. -- from posts here about branded hardware including you, i see that i do right things. i just buy parts and make computer from them, not only it's cheap, but it have similar

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-09 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:43:08AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed: Buy second hand branded hardware from ebay (allegro in poland). It's usually hardware that was used in offices and replaced by more modern ones. It's already tested!!! You could get high-end PIII with 512MB RAM for $30

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
task that even Pentium 100 will do. I'm hosting websites on 5-10 years old SUN hardware. V100/120 with ultrasparc II 400-650 Mhz. Just put in some new disks and memory, no sweat. They allmost normal. 400MHz SUNs are available here for 100$ or less. they usually have quite a lot of RAM even

What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread ericr
hard to get them to tell you what controllers and chipsets they're using in servers, to compare against the supported hardware list. What I'm looking for isn't all that exotic: rack mountable RAID-5 controller 4-6 or more disks (hot swappable would be nice, but not mandatory) dual power supplies

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
ericr wrote: I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. We use Dell almost exclusively. Although Dell doesn't officially support FreeBSD, Dell hardware

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Tim Judd
better for them, in fact, they seem to run hotter. iXsystems, the PC-BSD guys, build components and provide hardware warranty like the big companies. I would pick IBM or iXsystems. IBM's warranty policy is written out, the IBMs have had more overall success than any other big company brand

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
. jerry Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had good luck with them? It seems hard to get them to tell you what controllers and chipsets they're using in servers, to compare against the supported hardware list. What I'm looking for isn't all that exotic

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread John Almberg
Hi, I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. I have two Intel servers that I like a lot. I don't have on-site support, but it might be

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Karl Vogel
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:56:35 -0600, ericr erobi...@gmail.com said: E Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had E good luck with them? I've always had good luck with Dell, especially the GX-260s. I've used them for file-servers handling over 100 Samba

4 GB RAM hardware but only 3.4 GB real/avail

2009-05-11 Thread Len Conrad
I'm sure this has been answered but I can't Google it. Where's the 600 MB gone to? Len ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: 4 GB RAM hardware but only 3.4 GB real/avail

2009-05-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com: I'm sure this has been answered but I can't Google it. Really? This question has been asked a gazillion times ... Where's the 600 MB gone to? i386 arch can only see 4G total, but much hardware reserves the last 500M or so for special hardware

Re: 4 GB RAM hardware but only 3.4 GB real/avail

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Giessel
/search?q=+4+GB+RAM+hardware+but+only+3.4+GB+real%2Favail The first link takes me to: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.html Which appears to be largely Windows specific, but very detailed if you are looking for a more in-depth explanation and also says: To be perfectly clear

ath_hal problem on slow hardware, can be tuned?

2009-05-05 Thread Luke Dean
as: ath%d: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel %u (%u Mhz) The Atheros Hardware Access Layer was unable to reset the hardware when switching channels during scanning. This should not happen. sys/contrib/dev/ath/ah.h documents the error 3 as: HAL_EIO = 3,/* Hardware didn't respond

Re: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-14 Thread Graham Bentley
The first two utils I run if I suspect hardware issues both independant of resident os ; http://www.memtest.org/ http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/technolo/dft/dft.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-13 Thread John Almberg
I have what looks like a hardware problem with an Intel 1U server, which I am using mainly as a mysql database server for some of my bigger website clients. The server went down last week with a badly corrupted file system. After spending a day trying to fix the file system, we gave up

Re: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-13 Thread John Almberg
, I've never really had to deal with a hardware failure before, so it's a good learning process. If the machine is out of warranty, you might consider replacing it altogether. My employer's IT department ditches PC's and servers at the first failure after the warranty runs out. Accordinf to them

Fwd: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-13 Thread John Almberg
On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The database ran well for about 2 minutes, then the server crashed again. The filesystem was again corrupted so badly that we could not even log in to look at the logs. did memtest? it looks like it's fine until you stress your hardware

Re: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The database ran well for about 2 minutes, then the server crashed again. The filesystem was again corrupted so badly that we could not even log in to look at the logs. did memtest? it looks like it's fine until you stress your hardware We've reinstalled FreeBSD again, just to be able

Re: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:07:25PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I have what looks like a hardware problem with an Intel 1U server, which I am using mainly as a mysql database server for some of my bigger website clients. The server went down last week with a badly corrupted file system

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Graeme Dargie wrote: My grandmother had a HP that just died too. My brother took the first stab at it, describing it as a likely DC-DC converter problem, and I was seeing indication of a bad seat on the CPU. It was working just fine and for the CPU to become unseated is not likely. I tore

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/12 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :(( Thanks Chris

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Chris On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/12 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Chris On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly

Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Tim Judd
hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :(( Even though it's (OT), maybe some of us could be able to help. What's the problem? I will try the HP support forums as suggested but... It's a nc6320 (RH383ET#ABU

RE: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-12 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Tim Judd [mailto:taj...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 April 2009 21:38 To: Chris Whitehouse Cc: Glen Barber; User Questions Subject: Re: (OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Glen

(OT) good laptop hardware repair group or forum

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :(( Thanks Chris

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:24:24 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon I can't seem to find usbconf. % usbconf usbconf: Command not found. % whereis usbconf usbconf: Is it a third party application? My mistake, sorry. Of course it's usbdevs, a tool that comes

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-11 Thread Masoom Shaikh
devinfo -v On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Josh Carroll wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:07:51 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: % pciconf -lv man pciconf for further details. Additionally: usbconf to list USB devices, and camcontrol to list SCSI devices, as well as atacontrol for ATA devices. And finally, dmesg. :-) Note that these

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:07:51 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: % pciconf -lv man pciconf for further details. Additionally: usbconf to list USB devices, and camcontrol to list SCSI devices, as well as atacontrol for ATA devices. And finally, dmesg.

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:07:51 + Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: Josh Carroll wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Anders Troback
Den Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:24:24 + skrev Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:07:51 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: % pciconf -lv man pciconf for further details. Additionally: usbconf to list USB devices, and

hardware list in a machine

2009-03-09 Thread gahn
Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks. Give the sysutils

Re: Anyone know SunFire hardware

2009-03-04 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 02 March 2009 01:57:21 pm Paul Schmehl wrote: We have FreeBSD installed on a SunFire box running two AMD Opteron processors. I was upgrading to 7.1 STABLE on Friday, and after installing the kernel I rebooted. Now the box is completely unusable. Does anyone know how to get a

Re: Anyone know SunFire hardware

2009-03-03 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Monday 02 March 2009 5:06 pm, new_guy wrote: Paul Schmehl-2 wrote: I've done some Googling, and the most common answer seems to be hit STOP+A, but there is no STOP key on an Intel keyboard. Is there a magic incantation that will work? Maybe the entrails of a young goat? Ctrl +

Anyone know SunFire hardware

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
We have FreeBSD installed on a SunFire box running two AMD Opteron processors. I was upgrading to 7.1 STABLE on Friday, and after installing the kernel I rebooted. Now the box is completely unusable. Does anyone know how to get a SunFire box to boot from the CD ROM? Any changes I make to the

Re: Anyone know SunFire hardware

2009-03-02 Thread new_guy
. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Anyone-know-SunFire-hardware-tp22294904p22297874.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: new hardware platform?? :-)

2009-02-25 Thread perryh
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Robert Huff wrote: Has any one seen more on this? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10170648-1.html http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp They claim only Linux support for the brick, but the blurb on the 88F6281 system-on-chip processor claims BSD

new hardware platform?? :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Robert Huff
Has any one seen more on this? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10170648-1.html Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: new hardware platform?? :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:        Has any one seen more on this?        http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10170648-1.html I think I found a new wish-list item for my birthday. ;) -- Glen Barber ___

Re: new hardware platform?? :-)

2009-02-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i don't see monitor connector? :) On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Robert Huff wrote: Has any one seen more on this? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10170648-1.html Robert Huff ___

Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-02-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
will work? I know Solaris has a Install_check tool which will give a list whether a hardware has solaris drivers ,third-part driver or not supported. Does Fbsd has something likely? Thk in advance! Here are some web pages to look at. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop

zfs raid and/or hardware raid..

2009-02-11 Thread B. Cook
I have a dimension 9150 that I am going to put amd64 freebsd on to play with. It has Intel ICH7 SATA300 on it, in the bios it says it can do raid. I'm assuming that would be a hardware raid.. Would I be better off just using two disks and mirror them in software raid (zpool) or using

Re: zfs raid and/or hardware raid..

2009-02-11 Thread Matias Surdi
. Cook wrote: I have a dimension 9150 that I am going to put amd64 freebsd on to play with. It has Intel ICH7 SATA300 on it, in the bios it says it can do raid. I'm assuming that would be a hardware raid.. Would I be better off just using two disks and mirror them in software raid (zpool) or using

Re: zfs raid and/or hardware raid..

2009-02-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:58:04PM -0500, B. Cook wrote: I have a dimension 9150 that I am going to put amd64 freebsd on to play with. It has Intel ICH7 SATA300 on it, in the bios it says it can do raid. I'm assuming that would be a hardware raid.. You are assuming wrong. It is software

Re: zfs raid and/or hardware raid..

2009-02-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
RAID implementations (and most of the cheaper add-on RAID cards.) RAID that is supported in the BIOS have one advantage over other software implementations, and that is that you can boot from all supported RAID configurations, which is not always the case otherwise. always - if you use

Re: zfs raid and/or hardware raid..

2009-02-11 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:18:42PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: RAID implementations (and most of the cheaper add-on RAID cards.) RAID that is supported in the BIOS have one advantage over other software implementations, and that is that you can boot from all supported RAID

Re: RTL8201 not explicitly in 7.1 supported hardware

2009-02-10 Thread Mel
model. You could always try freebsd-hardware list. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

RTL8201 not explicitly in 7.1 supported hardware

2009-02-05 Thread Len Conrad
A client wants to buy some TigerDirect/VisionMan 1U's with this mobo: http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=P4M900%20MICRO%20775 RTL8201 PHY Ethernet http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/hardware.html ... shows only RTL81xx has anybody got RTL8201 working with FreeBSD 7.1, 7.0?

How to force usage of pcm1 instead of pcm0 (HDA audio hardware two time present)

2009-01-30 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, since I have a AMD/ATI HDMI-capable graphics hardware my onboard sound hardware (HDA) gets recogniced as pcm1-3, the HDA capable digital device onboard the graphics adaptor is numberd pcm0. How can I force the OS (FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE) to number the on-graphics-HDA device as the last one

atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
How can I detect if system has Software or hardware raid? Since in manual page: The atacontrol command can also be used to create purely software RAID arrays in systems that do NOT have a real hardware RAID card such as a Highpoint or Promise card. A common scenario is a 1U server

Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Paetzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: How can I detect if system has Software or hardware raid? Since in manual page: The atacontrol command can also be used to create purely software RAID arrays in systems that do NOT have a real hardware RAID card

Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Paetzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: How can I detect if system has Software or hardware raid? Since in manual page: The atacontrol command can also be used to create purely software RAID arrays in systems that do NOT have a real hardware RAID card

Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ar RAID devices are almost always software/BIOS RAID. In this case intel matrix raid is software RAID provided by the system BIOS. The it's always better to use gmirror. not mentioning more flexibility (you do not have to mirror whole drives) ___

Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

2009-01-20 Thread perryh
there is also the droboshare. great little fileserver. Last I knew Drobo supported only Samba, not NFS -- but that was some time ago. Have they come out with an upgrade? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

2009-01-19 Thread michael
Clifton Royston wrote: I'd consider running a Mac Mini (tiny, silent, s/b reliable) if it weren't for needing 2+ drives for mirroring. this would work fine with gmirror using usb/firewire drives. there is also the droboshare. great little fileserver. aopen cubes run great. i've had one

Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

2009-01-19 Thread Brian McCann
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Clifton Royston wrote: I'd consider running a Mac Mini (tiny, silent, s/b reliable) if it weren't for needing 2+ drives for mirroring. this would work fine with gmirror using usb/firewire drives. there is also

Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

2009-01-18 Thread Clifton Royston
My FreeBSD file server at home has been running for 5 or 6 years on a succession of generic PC small form factor boxes (a.k.a shoebox cases.) I'm not very happy with this approach, because the hardware keeps dying every two years or so. The latest incarnation is getting flakier and flakier

About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-01-18 Thread aaron lewis
a list whether a hardware has solaris drivers ,third-part driver or not supported. Does Fbsd has something likely? Thk in advance! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

2009-01-18 Thread Chris Hill
/support/edocs/systems/opgx150/en/ug/index.htm Anyway, I've had good luck so far with Dell desktop hardware; it seems to be well-made, easy to work with and QUIET. Check it out if you can get a machine cheap or free. Hope this helps. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org

Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-01-18 Thread Tim Judd
which will give a list whether a hardware has solaris drivers ,third-part driver or not supported. Does Fbsd has something likely? Thk in advance! The most reliable way to check, is by booting the livefs cd and checking pciconf -lvvv for any none* devices. the none* devices may be given

Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

2009-01-18 Thread Tim Judd
Clifton Royston wrote: My FreeBSD file server at home has been running for 5 or 6 years on a succession of generic PC small form factor boxes (a.k.a shoebox cases.) I'm not very happy with this approach, because the hardware keeps dying every two years or so. The latest incarnation

Re: About FreeBSD hardware compatibility?

2009-01-18 Thread Da Rock
if everything will work? I know Solaris has a Install_check tool which will give a list whether a hardware has solaris drivers ,third-part driver or not supported. Does Fbsd has something likely? Thk in advance! The most reliable way to check, is by booting the livefs cd and checking

Help me select hardware and software options for very large server

2009-01-09 Thread Terry Kennedy
[I decided to ask this question here as it overlaps -hardware, -current, and a couple other lists. I'd be glad to redirect the conversation to a list that's a better fit, if anyone would care to suggest one.] I'm in the process of planning the hardware and software for the second generation

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 05:11:00PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: But if I remember my legal and ethics course correctly if you can arrive at a conclusion through your own research then your reasonably clear. For example, the drivers are closed source but the hardware itself is an entirely separate

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think that can be handled quite easily by community social pressure, and moderation would just set a precedent for it's someone else's job. moderation is needed. Things like community social pressure simply doesn't. Like with democracy - those who are more common and louder will takeover,

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and exactly is needed on that group. it would be enough that moderator's job will be just removing posts that classify to NTG. NOTHING else. As long as neither you, nor anyone that thinks like you, is in charge of moderation, it might not be a *complete* disaster. of course it should be you

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
There are many constructive ways of improving FreeBSD. You have already submitted 7 bug reports in out bug database. If you think you can help of which at least 2 was completely ignored;) (no even response) by submitting *more* bug reports, testing FreeBSD patches, developing new FreeBSD

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:49:57PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I think the list you're looking for when you talk about only discussing the base-system already exists (probably stable or arch). This is freebsd questions- and the nature of the list according to the all-knowing handbook

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:06:58 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Now i'm using FreeBSD and it got better each version. Really better, not better. And i really want to keep it that way, because there is no alternative now! There are many constructive ways of

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread perryh
reproduction of the technology involved, even entirely independently. Someone described the justification as avoiding a situation in which it would pay to be ignorant of what others had done. For example, the drivers are closed source but the hardware itself is an entirely separate issue. So

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
base system: nothing appropriate Maybe what we need isn't for you to keep complaining about 70% of the very helpful list traffic, helpful for whom? thus producing another 5% of the list traffic yourself (directly, and indirectly through annoyed responses to you), but for someone to come

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