Questions about camcontrol, hot-swapping, ciss and Compaq SmartArray

Hello, Today I saw that one of my disks seems to be dead/dying in a RAID 5 array I have: http://pastebin.ca/937249 snip loki.domain.int ciss0: *** Fatal drive error, SCSI port 1 ID 0 loki.domain.int (da1:ciss0:0:1:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 c ae 3f d0 0 0 20 0 loki.domain.int (da1:ciss0:0:1:0):

ACL mask problems

Hello, I'm getting quite annoyed at ACLs. I don't understand why this is happening: I have a directory that gets subdirectories created by a web script, but for some reason those directories have different permissions. Here is the parent's default ACL, which as I understand it should be what

Trouble making packages, wrong path

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just created a new jail for a pkg repo and I'm trying to make packages, but it isn't using the correct path. I've tried all sorts of things to get it to work correctly but it insists on making packages in /usr/ports/section/port/ instead of

Re: Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Pull the disk set in the running system and put it in the non-running system and see if it boots, if it does, try putting the disks that came out of the non-running system into the running system and seeing if you can

Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I recently got two of these old machines used. One installed and runs fine, but the other... I've been working on it for three days now and I can't get it to boot. I can install just fine from the CD (using 6.1-R), but upon reboot it goes past

RAID online capacity expansion

Hello, Has anyone out there successfully done an online expansion of a RAID array in FreeBSD? How is it done and with what hardware did it work? From what I can gather, it's not possible. Aside from the fact that fdisk(8) says Editing an existing slice will most likely result in the loss of

Installing a custom kernel with sysinstall over NFS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have NFS+PXE installs working, but I need quotas enabled. I haven't seen any way to do this other than a custom kernel, so I need to have sysinstall push a custom build kernel out instead of the default one. I copied the disc1 ISO to a

Adding lines to /etc/rc.conf during sysinstall wihout being REMOVED

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know the correct way to add lines to rc.conf without sysinstall commenting them out and prepending REMOVED to them, during an automated install.cfg routine? Currently I have a pkg I made that adds stuff like ntp.conf and rc.conf, but all

Re: Adding lines to /etc/rc.conf during sysinstall wihout being REMOVED

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Nørgaard wrote: Josh Endries wrote: Does anyone know the correct way to add lines to rc.conf without sysinstall commenting them out and prepending REMOVED to them, during an automated install.cfg routine? Currently I have a pkg I made

sysinstall swap node problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So anyone have a resolution to this problem asked last year: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/040502.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/042082.html I'm having the same problem but

Re: sysinstall swap node problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Endries wrote: I'm having the same problem but haven't figured it out, maybe it's just a bug in sysinstall? If I don't use diskLabelCommit and wait until installCommit later it continues, but that doesn't make sense to me; there's no more

iSCSI support

I read in the status report that work is being done on iSCSI, which is awesome. We're putting in a SAN at work, starting at probably 8 TB and growing. I'm currently looking at a Coraid AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) solution since it seems to have good support for FreeBSD and Windows drivers in the

Plasmon UDO drive?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Does anyone know if Plasmon USO drives work with FreeBSD? They're SCSI WORM devices. Are there any other WORM devices that do? Josh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird -

Dialogic 4-port modem PCI cards?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have an Intel Dialogic D/4PCI 4-port modem and I'm wondering if anyone knows whether I can get it working on FreeBSD. I haven't touched a modem in probably 15 years and I've forgotten most everyting heh. It works on Linux, via Intel's

FreeBSD in a SAN environment

Hello, We are looking at putting in a SAN and I would like to know if anyone has any experience with using FreeBSD on a SAN. From Googling I've found some (old) references to some hardware working... Qlogic ISP 2300 PCI FC-AL adapter connected to EMC/Clariion Qlogic ISP 2200 PCI FC-AL adapter