Re: LSI 20320R Raid Card

2004-05-23 Thread Scott Long
J.D. Bronson wrote: I have asked this and no one replied, but I have more information... The card seems very well supported (mpt) but yet when I setup a RAID MIRROR and it is resyncing - the card DOES tell Freebsd 5.2.1, but the message is unrecognized:

Re: IBM e325 ServeRAID-6M on FreeBSD 5.x

2004-06-04 Thread Scott Long
Ganbold wrote: Hi, We are planning to purchase IBM e325 server with ServeRAID-6M and Dual AMD Opteron 2.2Ghz CPU. Did somebody make FreeBSD 5.x work on IBM e325 server with ServeRAID-6M before? Are there any known problems and issues? Will FreeBSD 5.x work on it? thanks in advance, Ganbold The

Re: 4 CD ISOs for 5.2 ?

2004-02-03 Thread Scott Long
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:52:14PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2004 13:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: Only the first 2 CDs are made available on the FTP site. The other two contain a subset of packages; the full set of packages is available on the FTP

Re: 4 CD ISOs for 5.2 ?

2004-02-03 Thread Scott Long
Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2004 23:20, Scott Long wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:52:14PM +0100, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2004 13:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: Only the first 2 CDs are made available on the FTP site. The other two

Re: Adaptec 2410SA starts doing this: aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8 TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS (Modified by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC)

2004-03-05 Thread Scott Long
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I originally sent this to -questions, but got no response. I hope this is a good place to send this. While the drives and controller are SATA, the driver is the SCSI aac driver for the adaptec raid, hence this group. I would appreciate

Re: Adaptec 2410SA starts doing this: aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS (Modified by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC)

2004-03-18 Thread Scott Long
Albert Shih wrote: Le 05/03/2004 à 22:05:25-0700, Scott Long a écrit On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Now the machine, when it tries to check the two aacd volumes on this controller, starts printing out this message below every 20 seconds or so and the disk volumes cannot

Re: Adaptec 2410SA starts doing this: aac0: COMMAND0xc551a7e8TIMEOUTAFTER 147 SECONDS (Modified by Chad Leigh -- Shire.NetLLC)

2004-03-18 Thread Scott Long
and rebooting gets it unwedged -- reset does not. On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:31:48 +0100, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Le 05/03/2004 à 22:05:25-0700, Scott Long a écrit On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Now the machine, when it tries to check the two aacd volumes

Re: Sound Blaster Live DD5.1

2003-06-08 Thread Scott Long
Emil A Eklund wrote: I believe the soundblasters in dell machines are special in some kind, I have a dell as well and the SB Live that came with it works fine under windows, but does not work at all under FreeBSD, however I had an old Live (exact same spec as the one that came with the machine)

Re: Adaptec 2120S management (raidutil) ?

2003-07-08 Thread Scott Long
Buki wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is some FreeBSD software to manage Adaptec 2120S RAID SCSI card. Looking through Adaptec web I found Storage Manager 3.04 but it's quite old and it says for 2100S, 3200S and 3400S and I really have not got it to run. Then there is CLI version 1.0 for

Re: Adaptec 2120S management (raidutil) ?

2003-07-08 Thread Scott Long
Tuc wrote: I was wondering if there is some FreeBSD software to manage Adaptec 2120S RAID SCSI card. Looking through Adaptec web I found Storage Manager 3.04 but it's quite old and it says for 2100S, 3200S and 3400S and I really have not got it to run. Then there is CLI version 1.0 for FreeBSD

Re: Adaptec 2120S management (raidutil) ?

2003-07-08 Thread Scott Long
Buki wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:17:34AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Buki wrote: Hi, The old 'Storage Manager' and 'raidutil' tools do not work with the newer generation of Adaptec RAID cards. The newer genreation use 'Storage Manager Browser Edition' for the GUI and 'aaccli' for the CLI

Re: Sony autoloader

2005-01-08 Thread Scott Long
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 07), Jeff Tollison said: pciconf -lv for the slot says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:7:0: class=0x01 card=0x80101191 chip=0x80101191 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Acard Technology Corp' device = 'ATP870 Ultra Wide SCSI Contoller (AEC6712UW)' class

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-04 Thread Scott Long
Astrodog wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:37:08 +0100 (CET), Claus Guttesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cost wise, AMD Opteron 246 is roughly the same cost as a 3.0Ghz Xeon ... But how do they compare performance wise; specifically related to FreeBSD? We have a dual xeon (nocona) @ 3.2 GHz and a dual

Re: Intel EMT64 Xeon vs AMD Opteron

2005-02-04 Thread Scott Long
Astrodog wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:38:43 -0800, Astrodog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:37:08 +0100 (CET), Claus Guttesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cost wise, AMD Opteron 246 is roughly the same cost as a 3.0Ghz Xeon ... But how do they compare performance wise; specifically

Re: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Scott Long
Theo de Raadt wrote: re: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10032offset=15rows=28 See a posting from Scott Long of FreeBSD; --- Thanks for going to a public forum and saying I am full of crap. I really appreciate that. Boy, you sure do want to see all of our projects do well, don't you

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Scott Long
releasing just documentation would lose them so much business that it's worth losing all this business. Jason On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:21:19 -0700, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Crawford wrote: The problem is that the AAC driver doesn't work. My 3.6-stable dell poweredge server with that raid

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Scott Long
Theo de Raadt wrote: What part of the FreeBSD AAC driver is closed, emcumbered, or otherwise non-free? The bits that do management. Therefore, the bits that let it do what RAID controllers are meant to do. Can you fully operate an aac(4) card -- 100% of it's abilities, on a FreeBSD machine,

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Scott Long
that just happens. Freedom is something that happens when someone puts their toes out there, with a stance, an attempt, a struggle. Freedom is not something that happens when Scott long makes apologies for Adaptec and slags Theo on public sites ... when Theo decides to use his project to take action against

Re: Panic With MPT driver on Opteron System

2005-03-23 Thread Scott Long
NMH wrote: Hello I am having a odd problem I hope someone can help with. I have a TYAN 2882 board with 4 gigs of memory and a single Opteron 248 Processor. I am using an Infortrend RAID controller that won't play nice with Adaptec at 320 speeds so I am using an LSI 1030 based PCI-X SCSI card

Re: SCSI errors with Adaptec 2200S RAID

2004-08-05 Thread Scott Long
Andre Albsmeier wrote: On Tue, 03-Aug-2004 at 23:31:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please cc replies directly to me, as I am not subscribed to the lists. With some help from here, I was able to get this RAID card to see our external DLT (QUANTUM 4000) SCSI tape drive by installing the aacp

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-10 Thread Scott Long
Nathan Vidican wrote: I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues still exist? We're currently operating with 2GB ECC Registered PC333 ram, but are finding a fairly constant usage of about 1700MB swap space; like to

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-13 Thread Scott Long
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:43:20PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues still exist? The only potential issues are with specific drivers (e.g. ata). Search the

Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?

2006-03-13 Thread Scott Long
Gary Palmer wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:57:53PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: Storage drivers that simply will not work:: asr asr asr asr asr pst ida sym Any particular reason asr is listed 5 times? Did you mean to replace some of them with other drivers, or are you emphatically sure

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Scott Long
Iantcho Vassilev wrote: Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary this: I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite frankly, memory copies

[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Announcement

2004-11-07 Thread Scott Long
Communications, Sandvine, Inc., FreeBSD Systems, Inc, and NTT/Verio. The release engineering team for 5.3-RELEASE includes: Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Release Engineering, I386 and AMD64 Release Building Ken Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]I386 and Sparc64

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Scott Long
jsha wrote: Hello. I am writing this e-mail hoping that someone will share my thoughts on how the world's best operating system should represent its attributes and users to the rest of the world. Being an architect as well as graphic designer, I feel it is about time for a complete revamp of

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Scott Long
Sam wrote: If we want to be taken seriously in the commercial world then we need to have the right image. Look ma, a strawman! The concern you're addressing is the sort of thing distros solved in the Linux world. Each typically has their own image, installer, system config style, etc. More

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Scott Long
Sam wrote: If we want to be taken seriously in the commercial world then we need to have the right image. Look ma, a strawman! The concern you're addressing is the sort of thing distros solved in the Linux world. Each typically has their own image, installer, system config style, etc. More

Re: Any help about FreeBSD Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-13 Thread Scott Long
systems [?] Thats why I have only hope here with FreeBSD List... I've CC'd Scott Long, who is the author of the mfi(4) driver. He should be able to explain what the error messages mean. Scott, check out the URL below. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread Scott Long
Ok guys, time for a small breather here. All these claims about EoE and orphanage and whatnot are a bit premature and underinformed. First, the iir driver is being worked on when the need arises. Several bugs were fixed in it a few months ago, and until Mark's recent series of mails on it, no

Re: LSI 9211 driver

2010-11-15 Thread Scott Long
A driver called mps exists in FreeBSD 9-CURRENT. We're working to move it to FreeBSD 8 in time for the 8.2 release. Scott On Nov 15, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Gergely CZUCZY (by way of Gergely CZUCZY gergely.czu...@harmless.hu) wrote: Hello, I'd like to ask when can we expect a driver for the

Re: swap file vs swap partition

2007-02-04 Thread Scott Long
Aloha Guy wrote: Greetings everyone: I am planning to build a few new boxes which will run -RELEASE and -CURRENT and I have a question about the swap file. In the past, I had always used a swap partition of 256MB since I originally had 128MB system memory in the 1990's but my system has

Re: swap file vs swap partition

2007-02-04 Thread Scott Long
Aloha Guy wrote: Thanks for the input. You do have good points. The only issue with swap partitions is that it seems like you need to increase it everytime you increase the physical memory. Is there a swap partition size limit that pretty much will handle anything and setting a number

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-14 Thread Scott Long
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Sean Bryant wrote: Andrew Reilly wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-19 Thread Scott Long
Eric Anderson wrote: Ensel Sharon wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not allowing installation

2006-06-19 Thread Scott Long
Ensel Sharon wrote: I did all my due diligence, I contacted freebsd-fs and _made sure_ that even though the 2820sa is not listed by name in the HCL, that I could take a 6.1-RELEASE cd and install freebsd on a 2820sa. I was _assured_ that these cards are supported in 6.1-RELEASE, that all is

Re: SATA300 Controllers

2006-07-06 Thread Scott Long
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote.. Hello all, Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not

Re: VFS KPI was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

2008-01-17 Thread Scott Long
Rick Macklem wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote: [good stuff snipped] Right now we maintain a relatively stable VM/VFS KPI withing a major release (i.e, FreeBSD 6.0 - 6.1 - 6.2 - 6.3), but see fairly significant changes between major releases (5.x - 6.x - 7.x, etc). I