Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-20 Thread TJ Varghese
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.orgwrote: Hi: I am looking for a new low power mini-itx board for my firewall/home server. I've had VIA boards but flacky disk controller and other problems have made me look for something else. So, going all Intel, I hope

Re: 5900 RPM drives

2010-08-14 Thread TJ Varghese
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.bizwrote: I was actually looking at the Seagate Barracuda model... I'm upgrading my RAID 5 of 8x1TB to something larger. $135 each: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148487 If it's for a personal NAS,

Re: 5900 RPM drives

2010-08-13 Thread TJ Varghese
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: Can anyone give me any reasons to buy these over 7200RPMs for a RAID? I may need to pinch pennies if I have to finance my next servers out of pocket. Stupid idea, I know, but I really want to know if there's a reason to

Re: USB disk boot issues

2010-04-14 Thread TJ Varghese
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:38:53 -0500 Peter Steele wrote: We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all works well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at the mount root

Re: Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread TJ Varghese
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Has anyone used 'Wester Digital Caviar Black' disks in a gstripe? I'm building a 2TB gstripe, from 3x 1TB disks. My concern, is the disks are 'consumer grade' disks. Western Digital mention not to use them with a raid

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread TJ Varghese
2009/11/18 Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com: Hello, My computer get starts to reboot all the time I do a higher hdd use (like: fsck, copying more GB of data). I was sure that my power supply its not enough so I changed it (300W-450W), now it does the same. I'm looking for a

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread TJ Varghese
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Benjamin Leeb...@b1c1l1.com wrote: On 06/22/2009 06:16 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), I run an SSH server.  I am the only person who uses the server, but I use it from some locations that are

Re: CPU/motherboard recommendations

2009-06-13 Thread TJ Varghese
Robert Huff wrote: I am actively building the parts list for a new system, and would welcome advice on motherboards. Quick research has pointed me to two paths with regard to CPUs: Intel Q9550(s)/Q9650, and AMD Phenom II 925/945. (Unfortunately, the 925 doesn't seem to be

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

2008-11-12 Thread TJ Varghese
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello snip the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid) on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use the mirror in software) mainly because the Freebsd kernel is, in this manner,

Re: inventory software?

2008-08-26 Thread TJ Varghese
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a inventory software in ports tree? in base system - simply read /var/run/dmesg.boot sysutils/dmidecode cat pkg-descr Dmidecode is a tool or dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a