Re:anybody else have an asus 900a
14 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:05:43 -0800 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Subject: Anybody else have an ASUS 900A? To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: 20101207190541.ga16...@thought.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Well, no wonder it was so cheap; ASUS is going with their 10 model Eventually I will put on FBSD; for the time being, if anyone else onlist has this model, please write off list. Trying to find the best way to put on ktts. gary Yeah mine was also pretty cheap, but thats why I bought it! I wiped the Xandros distro off of it immediately and put Ubuntu netbook remix on it at first. Then moved on to Freebsd. I've had FreeBSD on this machine for almost a year now. Everything works well. The only problem I ran into was disk space as it only has a 4gb ssd. I got around this by using a 8 gb sd card for my /usr partition. From what I've read online there is also an additional usb slot on the actual mother board, so you can use a micro usb key for storage there as well. Although, I haven't checked so I'm not 100% positive on that. I'm currently running 8.1-RELEASE with fluxbox, linux-opera(flash), and about 400 other packages. Wireless works great, I don't install from ports unless I absolutely have to because it just takes so damn long to compile anything on here. Anyways you're wanting to install ktts on your machine(/usr/ports/accessibility/ktts)? I dont forsee you having any problems using ktts on it. Regards, ~Sully ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
atacontrol rebuild on non-identical disks
We have a (very) remote FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE system running on Asus RS120 hardware and historically configured with 2 identical SATA drives using atacontrol RAID1 and the system installed on ar0. One of the drives has died, however no identical replacement drive could be easily sourced at the remote location. So, attempting to get things back to normal RAID1 operation as quickly as possible we have tried a same size but non-identical drive and attempted an atacontrol rebuild. However, this is stuck indefinitely at 0% rebuild progess. While I'm aware that some RAID1 mechanisms e.g. CCD seem to insist on identical disks, the documentation isn't so clear on ATA and I figured it was worth a try. Does anyone know if it is possible to overcome the non-identical disk issue and allow ata RAID1 to work again? I've also considered keeping the current ar0 setup on the single working disk and setting up a gmirror RAID1 copy on the second disk would work. Current config info is as follows: From atacontrol list: ATA channel 2: Master: ad4 WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0/08.02D08 Serial ATA v1.0 ATA channel 3: Master: ad6 HDT722525DLA380/V44OA9BA Serial ATA v1.0 From the permanently going nowhere rebuild output of atacontrol status: ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: REBUILDING 0% completed The WDC WD2000JD on ad4 is the functional system drive and orignial member of the RAID1 array. ad6 is the new spare and presumably is completely blank still at this stage. I realise that sourcing an identical drive is probably the right (or at least easy) answer. The original drives (WDC WD2000JD on ad4) are still available for purchase, just not anywhere near where the machine lives - so getting a replacement drive would be a logistically difficult and time-consuming exercise. Thanks, JS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
