Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Aaron C. Meadows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: My question is, since that chipset is

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a hardware system, then. I've had great luck with software mirroring and

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-13 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Greg 'groggy' Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There have been issues with growfs in the past; last time I looked it hadn't been updated to handle UFS 2. If you don't need the UFS 2 functionality, you might be better off using UFS 1 if you intend to grow the file system. growfs gained

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Tony Shadwick
The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example: Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D: will remain 400GB. I would have to utilize a third party piece of software to resize

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Subhro
On 5/11/2005 19:33, Tony Shadwick wrote: The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example: Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D: will remain 400GB. I would have to utilize a

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Tony Shadwick
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Subhro wrote: On 5/11/2005 19:33, Tony Shadwick wrote: The problem I've had in the past in Windows for example: Drive D: is a RAID5 volume, 400GB, nearly full. If I add a 200GB drive to the array, the 'disk' that Drive D: resides on is now ~600GB, but Drive D: will remain

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 May 2005 at 16:05:50 -0500, Tony Shadwick wrote: I've worked with RAID5 in FreeBSD in the past, with either vinum or a hardware raid solution. Never had any problems either way. I'm now building a server for myself at home, and I'm creating a large volume to store video. I

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

2005-05-10 Thread Subhro
On 5/11/2005 2:35, Tony Shadwick wrote: What my concern is when I start to fill up the ~400GB of space I'm giving myself with this set. I would like to simply insert another 200GB drive and expand the array, allowing the hardware raid to do the work. That is what everybody does. It is very

Re: Hardware problems after installing 5.4 pre-release

2005-03-30 Thread Todd Shirk
I've tried installing gnome and windowmaker to test the sound. Each act the same as KDE. Mplayer works with sound but nothing else. I, also, installed xmms and tested, no sound. The sound graphics are idle, seeming to indicate that the sound is not being generated in the applications. I,

Re: Hardware problems after installing 5.4 pre-release

2005-03-28 Thread Todd Shirk
You referred to kldstat. I'm not sure what I'm looking for with that or what switch I may need to use. I typed and received the following information: # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 18 0x8010 7c36b8 kernel 21 0x808c4000 50c8 udbp.ko 3

Re: Hardware problems after installing 5.4 pre-release

2005-03-28 Thread Todd Shirk
To add information on the usb mouse problem when I plug my usb mouse in to the 2 usb 2.0 ports, I get the first error at the command line: uhub1: device problem (SET_ADDR_FAILED), disabling port 2 uhub1: device problem (SET_ADDR_FAILED), disabling port 1 Like the sound, the usb mouse was working

Re: Hardware problems after installing 5.4 pre-release

2005-03-28 Thread Todd Shirk
Here's an update on the sound issue. I ported down and compiled mplayer. I popped in a DVD and typed on the command line: # mplayer dvd:// With that I got sound to play. I then recompile xine, but xine still has no sound. KDE is also soundless. Hopefully this helps. On Mon, 28 Mar 2005

Re: Hardware problems after installing 5.4 pre-release

2005-03-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:08:47 -0500 Todd Shirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an update on the sound issue. I ported down and compiled mplayer. I popped in a DVD and typed on the command line: # mplayer dvd:// With that I got sound to play. I then recompile xine, but xine still has no

Re: Hardware problems after installing 5.4 pre-release

2005-03-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:07:57 + Todd Shirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (MYKERNEL is the GENERIC plus the lines needed for loading the sound system and the via8233 sound driver for my sound card) device sound device snd_via8233 (with mergemaster I chose i for each file,

Re: Hardware dongle with FreeBSD support?

2005-03-10 Thread jonas
Hi On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:34, cyb wrote: Anyone here who can recommend a dongle with decent support for FreeBSD? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-February/077838.h tml http://bsdnews.org/03/cryptusb.php An ancrypted filesystem on a USB stick is nice, but the

Re: Hardware dongle with FreeBSD support?

2005-03-10 Thread jonas
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:50, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Anyone here who can recommend a dongle with decent support for FreeBSD? See http://www.safenet-inc.com. They make dongles and (USB) hardware keys for software products and they mention support for Linux and OS X, so they may have

Re: Hardware dongle with FreeBSD support?

2005-03-09 Thread cyb
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:15 +0100, jonas wrote: Hello questions-list! I'd like to know if anyone here is aware of a hardware manufacturer or supplier that offers dongles with FreeBSD support? (A small piece of hardware to plug into a USB or serial/parallel port with the possibility to

Re: Hardware dongle with FreeBSD support?

2005-03-09 Thread Anthony Atkielski
jonas writes: Background: The company I work for sells a system running on FreeBSD and we need to have this kind of copy protection and the possibility to store some bits of information on the dongle. Our current solutions already includes a parallel port dongle (WIBUKEY), but the driver for

Re: hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread cali
Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? Someone suggested this to me when I had a suspected hardware problem earlier this month: http://www.memtest86.com/ cali ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Dave Carrera schrieb: Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? I ask as i am building 3 new servers and want to check all parts ie, mem, hdd, cpu etc before loading on my freebsd. What would be ideal is a micro kernal on a floppy disk or self

Re: hardware testing / burn in software

2005-01-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:37:32PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: Dave Carrera schrieb: Hi List, Is there any freebsd based p.c hardware / burn in testing software available ? I ask as i am building 3 new servers and want to check all parts ie, mem, hdd, cpu etc before loading on my

Re: Hardware RAID

2005-01-22 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:42:32PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Stijn Hoop said: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but didn't think too much about. That is, a software array is no substitute for a hardware array. ...

RE: Hardware RAID

2005-01-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Stijn Hoop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 1:01 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Sandy Rutherford; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Hardware RAID I explicitly stated vinum is a great thing if what your wanting to do is use a bunch

Re: Hardware RAID

2005-01-21 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but didn't think too much about. That is, a software array is no substitute for a

Re: Hardware RAID

2005-01-21 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Jan 21, 2005, at 4:02 AM, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but didn't think too much about. That is, a

RE: Hardware RAID

2005-01-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Stijn Hoop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 1:02 AM To: Sandy Rutherford; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Hardware RAID On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005

Re: Hardware RAID Support (was RE: One Last Plea For Vinum Assistance)

2005-01-20 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but didn't think too much about. That is, a software array is no substitute for a

Re: Hardware Raid question

2005-01-18 Thread Mike Woods
Jason Lieurance wrote: I installed everything on 'ad4' but it I think I wanted to install it to 'ar0'. Am I right? Thanks. Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :) -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___

Re: Hardware Raid question

2005-01-18 Thread Mike Woods
Mike Woods wrote: Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :) s/Atapi/ata/ Less haste, more coffee, the key to better typing. -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Hardware Raid question

2005-01-18 Thread Jason Lieurance
Mike Woods said: Jason Lieurance wrote: I installed everything on 'ad4' but it I think I wanted to install it to 'ar0'. Am I right? Thanks. Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :) -- Mike Woods IT Technician Why does the os even detect the

Re: Hardware Raid question

2005-01-18 Thread Mike Woods
Why does the os even detect the individual drives when the raid card made it a single drive and the os install is after the raid bios??? Because the chipset provides means to control both single disks and arrays thus you get both, just the way that card chose to do things :) - Mike

Re: Hardware Raid question

2005-01-18 Thread Karl Denninger
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:58:59PM +, Mike Woods wrote: Why does the os even detect the individual drives when the raid card made it a single drive and the os install is after the raid bios??? Because the chipset provides means to control both single disks and arrays thus you get

Re: Hardware assembly

2005-01-15 Thread John
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 03:28:18AM +, Street Chaman wrote: hi everyone, i need low level hardware control over some devices (kbd, sound, display) in an assembly soft, and 'd like to know where i can find a list of ioctl_syscall supported parameters for each device. Furthermore, if

Re: hardware compatiblity

2005-01-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bens wrote: Im looking for a motherboard that will serve as our FreeBSD server, I have some difficulty finding the right review for MSI 865PE Neo2 platinum edition motherboard. Is this motherboard and its integrated components compatible with FreeBSD release 5.3? It's likely that the

Re: Hardware or OS problem?

2005-01-06 Thread Joseph Koenig (jWeb)
On 1/5/2005 at 09:14 Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: Hi, We have a system that is currently giving us some trouble. The system is FreeBSD 4.9. It's a 2 GHz system with 1MB RAM and (here's the kicker) 73GB RAID 1 ATA drives. The system serves as a web/database server dedicated to 1 site.

Re: Hardware or OS problem? System Crashing...

2005-01-06 Thread Joseph Koenig (jWeb)
On 1/5/2005 at 09:14 Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: Hi, We have a system that is currently giving us some trouble. The system is FreeBSD 4.9. It's a 2 GHz system with 1MB RAM and (here's the kicker) 73GB RAID 1 ATA drives. The system serves as a web/database server dedicated to 1 site.

Re: Hardware or OS problem? System Crashing...

2005-01-06 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:33:41 -0600 Joseph Koenig (jWeb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/5/2005 at 09:14 Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: Hi, We have a system that is currently giving us some trouble. The system is FreeBSD 4.9. It's a 2 GHz system with 1MB RAM and (here's the kicker) 73GB

Re: Hardware or OS problem? System Crashing...

2005-01-06 Thread Anthony Atkielski
I had a very similar problem over the holidays. After a power failure over a month ago, I noticed some anomalies in FreeBSD, but they were very insidious and didn't seem like hardware (and the system was on a UPS plus a surge protector, so I didn't think the PF alone could have done damage, unless

Re: Hardware support question

2004-12-10 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:03:42 -0600, Jim wrote Hi, Can you tell me if this motherboard / chipset is supported. This is in a Microtel computer. Motherboard: CPU Type AMD Duron XP, 1212 MHz (12 x 101) Motherboard Name

Re: hardware for onboard/WiFi NICs and chipset

2004-09-01 Thread John DeStefano
For those interested: I cured the system of its boot problem by disabling ACPI. There are two ways to do this: by appending the following text to /boot/device.hints: hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 ...or by selecting Boot with ACPI disabled (choice 2) from the FBSD boot menu. Note that when you do

Re: Hardware Recommendations (UK)

2004-09-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Graham Bentley wrote: Hi Can anyone recommend a good solid mobo for building a little web server ? Most brands have a reputation. Select one whose reputation is good. ;-) I have FreeBSD running on several mobos --- recently, builds have been FreeBSD 5.x on MSI and Shuttle (AK32V, IIRC). A

Re: Hardware Recommendations (UK)

2004-09-01 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
I recently built a system using a VIA EPIA PD1 motherboard with a VIA C3 (1GHz) processor on it. I've successfully compiled the entire system (buildworld and buildkernel) for 4.10-STABLE and a number of ports. Everything appears to work fine. If you want to build your own kernel, be aware

Re: hardware not supported

2004-07-17 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:10:40PM +0300, Sergey Limarenko wrote: why don't supported ethernet card D-Link 580TX, but 570TX - supported i very need this driver, where i can find it? D-Link 580TX is supported by ste(4). (However, I haven't tried it yet)

Re: hardware not supported

2004-07-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Sergey Limarenko wrote: why don't supported ethernet card D-Link 580TX, but 570TX - supported i very need this driver, where i can find it? If you leave a quarter under your pillow tonight, perhaps the tooth fairy will bring you a new driver. :-) You can help this process along by including the

Re: HardWare may be

2004-06-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
wrote: Russia, Chitinskaya state, Chita city. Hello to you ?untranslatable name?, too. :-) FreeBSD 5.2.1, it freezes on start load(default) of install. Probably it because of that of incompatibility with the hardware. Perhaps so. You might try booting with APCI disabled, or in safe mode, and

Re: Hardware compatability list query (of d00m)

2004-06-12 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:53:17PM +0100, Mike Woods wrote: Anyway, to the point, is there a big hardware compatability list anyway, i dont mean like the one on freebsd.org rather a site stating actual tried and tested cards and the like as opposed to chipsets and controllers ? for laptops

Re: hardware IBM xseries 335

2004-04-05 Thread frank cheong
First of all you can check out http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/hardware-i386.html to obtain the list of hardward support. Secondly, there are a lot of thread about the driver not available or have problem for FreeBSD 5.2.1 with IBM x345 where it is using serveRAID 6i and still encountering

RE: Hardware problems or Software problems

2004-04-03 Thread Mark Weisman
Luke, If I may offer you my two cents. Many newer systems come standard with 125W power supplies which will probably power the motherboard, that's usually about all. By the time you add several PCI cards and several hard drives, you've overloaded the power supply. Typically overlooked, this one

Re: Hardware on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-03-30 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Banana Flex wrote: hello! i have a little problem, can u help me? i would like to buy a new server called HP Proliant ML310 the hardware on this machine for the ethernet is a Compaq NC7760 this is working on FreeBSD 5.2.1? i have not seen this number on the hardware

Re: Hardware problems or Software problems

2004-03-25 Thread Luke Kearney
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:28:33 -0800 (PST) Denis R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Luke, I know that would be coincidental, but you know what your running CPU temp is (check your BIOS)? OS freeze-ups sometimes occur due to inadequate cooling of the CPU. Also maybe your computer is close to a

Re: Hardware problems or Software problems

2004-03-25 Thread Denis R.
Luke, Your temps are fine. Go to the hard drive manufacturer's web site and download a drive check utility. Once you run it, it will either say okay or spit out an error code that you can use to RMA your hard drive. If a hard drive locks up, you should still see errors on stdout, however nothing

Re: Hardware problems or Software problems

2004-03-25 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello Luke, I would try to find some kind of burn test utility which will test your hardware. As for memory, there is Memtest86 memory test, and for harddrives there are many vendor utilities, which can make a really deep tests. cheers, Martin On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:18:41AM

re: Hardware problems or Software problems

2004-03-24 Thread Denis R.
Luke, I know that would be coincidental, but you know what your running CPU temp is (check your BIOS)? OS freeze-ups sometimes occur due to inadequate cooling of the CPU. Also maybe your computer is close to a heat source? Are you using the same computer case? What is your power supply rated at?

Re: Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel:

Re: Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel:

Re: Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel:

Re: Hardware vs software firewall on FreeBSD

2004-02-12 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:37:45 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm upgrading the hardware on my webserver. It will run FreeBSD 4.9. I need to decide whether to use a hardware firewall (Cisco) or use ipfw, ipf, pf, etc. The hardware firewall will increase my monthly server rental bill by

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-08 Thread lists
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Why not just try it? Because it's a commercial hosting operation pushing up to 20Mb/s with SLA's to our clients. My biggest fear is not that this won't work, but that it will work but with intermittant bugs. Introducing a new machine has a certain

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-08 Thread Wayne Pascoe
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:49:19AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Introducing a new machine has a certain level of risk. What is your contingency plan if the machine fails anyway? The plan is to just remove the machine from the circuit. Instead of having a cable to the machine from the first

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Another alternative.. prepare both machines. Have the better machine ready to do an able to be connected/switched to at a moments notice. Put the slower machine on at the slowest day. Monitor it closely as traffic grows. That's probably the way

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-07 Thread Francisco
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Pentium III 667 Mhz with 512MB RAM 2 x Intel EtherExpress 100Mb cards Would either of these machines be able to meet my firewall requirements Why not just try it? It should be fairly simple to move from one machine to the other if need be. If the

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-07 Thread Wayne Pascoe
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:36:25PM +, Francisco wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Pentium III 667 Mhz with 512MB RAM 2 x Intel EtherExpress 100Mb cards Would either of these machines be able to meet my firewall requirements Why not just try it? Because it's a

Re: hardware testing - e.g. memory - on old hardware

2003-12-16 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
paul van den bergen wrote: Like most geeks[1] I have a pile of roting hardware at home... Someone yesterday mentioned (vaguely) about utilities for testing hardware - especially RAM - but presumably this could be extended to other hardware - that would 1) tell you if it is OK. This is

Re: Hardware support IBM X335 (was: QUESTION ABOUT FREE BSD)

2003-12-04 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:59:25PM +0900, Takuya Satoh wrote: Hi. I'm workink for computer sales buissnes, and one of my costomer woul'd like to know that your Free BSD would work on the IBM X335 Server. If you have experienced that you?hear?in this case, please let me know it work or not.

Re: Hardware woes

2003-11-19 Thread Jason
K Anderson wrote: Don't recall if I asked here. Asked on the Linux groups. I have the following: ATI AIW 9800 Pro (R350 w/dual whatever) Asus SK8N mobo (nForce 3 Pro 150) Audigy 2 Opteron 246 Should have gone with: nVidia something Haupage TV (or some other compat thingy) More

Re: Hardware woes

2003-11-19 Thread Jason
K Anderson wrote: Don't recall if I asked here. Asked on the Linux groups. I have the following: ATI AIW 9800 Pro (R350 w/dual whatever) Asus SK8N mobo (nForce 3 Pro 150) Audigy 2 Opteron 246 Should have gone with: nVidia something Haupage TV (or some other compat thingy) More

Re: Hardware woes

2003-11-19 Thread K Anderson
Jason wrote: K Anderson wrote: Don't recall if I asked here. Asked on the Linux groups. I have the following: ATI AIW 9800 Pro (R350 w/dual whatever) Asus SK8N mobo (nForce 3 Pro 150) Audigy 2 Opteron 246 Should have gone with: nVidia something Haupage TV (or some other compat

Re: Hardware RAID vs softupdates

2003-10-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-14T09:44:31Z, Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 4 SCSI hdds connect to this controller card. I wonder if I should disable the softupdates feature for the FFS to make the system runs faster. Out of curiosity, what part of the system do you think would be faster without

Re: Hardware RAID vs softupdates

2003-10-14 Thread Michael Lee
Message - From: Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:12 PM Subject: Re: Hardware RAID vs softupdates At 2003-10-14T09:44:31Z, Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 4 SCSI hdds connect to this controller card. I wonder if I should

Re: hardware monitoring / healthd

2003-08-14 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
ephix wrote: Hey, I have a Dell PowerEdge server, and have been trying to get healthd / chm working for the past few days. I think it uses the LM81 chipset (as ive managed to find with google), while healthd only supports LM78, LM79, and some others. The server is leaving for the datacenter in

Re: HARDWARE COMPATABLE

2003-07-27 Thread Ross Tregaskis
At 15:56 24/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: we are computer company for computer server, we sold out some severs with ECS P4VMM2 motherboard, but our customer can't run FreeBSD. would you please list the compatable motherboard, video card, hdd etc. What's the problem you're having? The current

Re: HARDWARE COMPATABLE

2003-07-24 Thread Vulpes Velox
Check the hardware notes on the releases against the hardware used. Info on the errors would be of help to. FreeBSD is for the most part not responsible for handleing the video card, that is done by the X server. On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:56:34 -0700 (PDT) ALLEN WANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Hardware for 100Mbps bridge

2003-06-06 Thread Bob Bomar
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:41:14AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am considering buying a new box to run FreeBSD and brige+ipfilter. Would anyone has a recommendation on what kind of mother board/NIC to use? For the moment I am using a P4 1.5 GHz and 3com 905B, but they may not be

Re: Hardware supported?

2003-06-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
I don't know about the sun, but the video card should work nicely. It should be supported by the drm in the kernel and X should play nicely with it. On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:13:27 +0200 Sandor \fisty\ Renz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, my name is Sandor Renz! ive been using freebsd for some time

Re: Hardware supported?

2003-06-03 Thread Jud
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 20:28:55 -0500, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about the sun, but the video card should work nicely. It should be supported by the drm in the kernel and X should play nicely with it. On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:13:27 +0200 Sandor \fisty\ Renz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware supported?

2003-06-03 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Wednesday, 04 June 2003 11:28, Vulpes Velox wrote: I don't know about the sun, but the video card should work nicely. It should be supported by the drm in the kernel and X should play nicely with it. Well actually the 9700PRO is supported to some extent. And that extent is 2D XFree86 only.

Re: hardware compatiblity list and upgrading

2003-03-12 Thread taxman
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 07:00 pm, Bsd Neophyte wrote: alright my bookpc that has served me nicely for over a year now has gone to hell. i've had a Dual P3-700e on an Asus P2B-LS. unfortunately, this MB doesn't have anything beyond an ata33. the drive I have is an ata100 drive. i'm sure

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-23 Thread Maxime Henrion
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: The 3c590 uses the 'vx' driver which is PIO/MMIO only. If it compiles on the sparc64 I suspect it will work fine. There is 0 chance the vr(4) driver will work on sparc64, it uses vtophys() for DMA and it doesn't look like it's endian-clean either. By the way, the

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-23 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote: Matthew N. Dodd wrote: The 3c590 uses the 'vx' driver which is PIO/MMIO only. If it compiles on the sparc64 I suspect it will work fine. There is 0 chance the vr(4) driver will work on sparc64, it uses vtophys() for DMA and it doesn't look like

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-23 Thread Maxime Henrion
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote: Matthew N. Dodd wrote: The 3c590 uses the 'vx' driver which is PIO/MMIO only. If it compiles on the sparc64 I suspect it will work fine. There is 0 chance the vr(4) driver will work on sparc64, it uses vtophys()

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-22 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
The 3c590 uses the 'vx' driver which is PIO/MMIO only. If it compiles on the sparc64 I suspect it will work fine. On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote: Alan Lai wrote: freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile them for ultrasparc machines? is there any

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-20 Thread Alan Lai
freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile them for ultrasparc machines? is there any way to get an x86 nic work under freebsd/ultrasparc? if so, whats the work that i have to do? please advice is the freebsd-sparc kernel not open source? i cannot compile/custimize it

Re: Hardware support under UltraSPARC

2003-02-20 Thread Maxime Henrion
Alan Lai wrote: freebsd has those drivers for x86 machines, is that possible to compile them for ultrasparc machines? is there any way to get an x86 nic work under freebsd/ultrasparc? if so, whats the work that i have to do? please advice You first need to convert the card to use the busdma

Re: Hardware perfomance question

2002-11-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:41:03AM +0300, Artem Koutchine wrote: I have ask the same question, but pretty much nobody answerred. Please, answer, if you have some opinion on this matter, because i need more opinions. So, the question is DUAL Pentium III XEON 550Mhz 512Kb cache with SDRAM

Re: Hardware perfomance question

2002-11-30 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 30 November 2002 02:39 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 12:41:03AM +0300, Artem Koutchine wrote: I have ask the same question, but pretty much nobody answerred. Please, answer, if you have some opinion on this matter, because i need more opinions. So, the

Re: Hardware test software for FreeBSD

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
Sostin Andrey wrote: Dear colleagues, Does anybody know about software tests for FreeBSD which could overload the whole system (like BurnIn Pro for Windows). Please give the url, if any. We need to test about 500 servers under FreeBSD... building a kernel is generally considered a good burn

Re: Hardware test software for FreeBSD

2002-11-27 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Sostin Andrey wrote: Dear colleagues, Does anybody know about software tests for FreeBSD which could overload the whole system (like BurnIn Pro for Windows). Please give the url, if any. We need to test about 500 servers under FreeBSD... Sincerely, Andrew A. Sostin To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Hardware limits

2002-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 09:51:11PM +0200, Socketd wrote: Hi FreeBSD'ers I am not a hardware expert, so I will ask here about the limits before buying a new server. How many processors can FreeBSD run with? SMP support in 4.x will use as many as you have, but FreeBSD 4.x does not make

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