Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-18 Thread Quartz
1) Given a system running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, is anything bad gonna happen if I insert a drive into this thing while the system is running? Assuming your board supports sata hotswap (too lazy to check) it'll be just fine. I've done this many times with the machine I'm messing with zfs

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-18 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 18 May 2013 10:49:13 -0400 Quartz articulated: You need the sata ports running in straight up pure ahci mode (as opposed to IDE mode or compatible or something that emulates old style parallel-ata). Be aware that Windows up through XP doesn't support ahci, so if you're dual booting

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-18 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 519794e9.6080...@sneakertech.com, Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote: 3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options should I be setting or unsetting on the motherboard? You need the sata ports running in straight up pure ahci mode (as opposed to IDE mode

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-18 Thread Quartz
You need the sata ports running in straight up pure ahci mode (as opposed to IDE mode or compatible or something that emulates old style parallel-ata). OK. Thanks Quartz,. I'll make it a point to check for that. The wording on different bios' can often be confusing. I've seen ahci mode

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-18 Thread Quartz
Be aware that Windows up through XP doesn't support ahci, There is a huge amount of information via a quick Google search that would seem to contradict your statements regarding WinXP and AHCI. Sorry, poor choice of wording. I meant earlier versions of Windows don't support achi

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-16 Thread Warren Block
(which may be ASrock as well), but I don't believe I had to do anything other hand make sure eSATA was enabled. I don't there there is any difference between SATA and eSATA above the physical layer. I'm not sure what that setting would do. At a guess, it could connect one of the internal SATA

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-16 Thread Robert Huff
Warren Block writes: I don't there there is any difference between SATA and eSATA above the physical layer. I'm not sure what that setting would do. At a guess, it could connect one of the internal SATA ports to the eSATA connector. That's the way mine works; on the other

Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-14 Thread Robert Huff
Ronald F. Guilmette writes: I bought one of these things awhile ago: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8psc=1 I believe I have a similar object, only a) external (eSATA), b) from a different manufacturer, and c) connected to a -CURRENT

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-14 Thread Polytropon
often works for USB-connected devices which also use CAM, and maybe SATA and eSATA also support it today? 2) Given a system running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, is anything bad gonna happen if I remove a drive from this thing while the system is running, assuming that I have already properly

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-14 Thread RW
), but I don't believe I had to do anything other hand make sure eSATA was enabled. I don't there there is any difference between SATA and eSATA above the physical layer. I'm not sure what that setting would do. You do need to set the SATA channel to AHCI. Note that this may require Windows

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-14 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
a similar object, only a) external (eSATA), b) from a different manufacturer, and c) connected to a -CURRENT system. I use it as a backup device. Yea, mine is internal, and real SATA. I wonder if that will make a difference. 1) Given a system running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, is anything bad gonna

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-14 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 20130514144721.aa321c25.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I've been using SCSI hot swap devices for many years, and they usually required a re-scan of the bus. The same often works for USB-connected devices which also use CAM, and maybe SATA and eSATA also support

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-14 Thread Robert Huff
Ronald F. Guilmette writes: That works for me. I need to re-scan the ata channel using atacontrol but once that happens it's fine. Hummm... I tried atacontrol info and I got this: atacontrol: ATA_CAM option is enabled in kernel. Please use camcontrol instead. So I

Re: Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-14 Thread Polytropon
-connected devices which also use CAM, and maybe SATA and eSATA also support it today? OK, so what command should I use when I plug a drive in? Would that be camcontrol rescan foo where foo is something like /dev/ada0? No. You use the typical SCSI-like device notation, bus:unit:lun, for example 0:1

Hot Swapping SATA drive?

2013-05-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I bought one of these things awhile ago: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8psc=1 So far, it seems to be working just peachy, but I have yet to do anything the least bit adventurous with it, such as trying to either insert a drive into it or remove a

Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On 2013-04-15 07:49, Beeblebrox wrote: EDIT: I had already placed in /etc/devfs.conf this entry some time ago: # Allow members of group operator to mount cdrom own /dev/cd0 root:operator perm/dev/cd0 0660 Not allowing mount despite all of these adjustments (being

sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Beeblebrox
. Set the CDDA_DEVICE environment variable or use the -D option. Regards. - 10-Current-amd64-using ccache-portstree merged with marcuscom.gnome3 xorg.devel -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/sata-ata-device-permission-for-user-tp5803691p5804740.html

Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:32:09 -0700 (PDT), Beeblebrox wrote: The user also needs access to the corresponding pass device which is shown by camcontrol devlist. He also needs access to /dev/xpt0 I think. Correct, that matches my settings. :-) HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4165B DL05 at scbus6 target

sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Beeblebrox
in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/sata-ata-device-permission-for-user-tp5803691p5804757.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 03:41:11AM -0700, Beeblebrox typed: But the group permissions are --- (none). D'oh! Well, that made a difference and I can query the cd0 device with cdda2wav as my user now. I still can't mount a data CD however. What's the output of: sysctl vfs.usermount ?? --

Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Beeblebrox
What's the output of: sysctl vfs.usermount vfs.usermount: 1 I can mount USB devices... - 10-Current-amd64-using ccache-portstree merged with marcuscom.gnome3 xorg.devel -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/sata-ata-device-permission-for-user

Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:41:11 -0700 (PDT), Beeblebrox wrote: But the group permissions are --- (none). D'oh! Well, that made a difference and I can query the cd0 device with cdda2wav as my user now. I still can't mount a data CD however. You need write access to the cd, pass and xpt

sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-14 Thread Beeblebrox
group operator /etc/rc.conf has: devfs_system_ruleset=localrules Regards. - 10-Current-amd64-using ccache-portstree merged with marcuscom.gnome3 xorg.devel -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/sata-ata-device-permission-for-user-tp5803691.html Sent from

Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:11:38 -0700 (PDT), Beeblebrox wrote: My user is unable to mount cdrom and cannot use qemu for the HDD devices. Why is access to these devices being refused for my user? Because there have to be certain permissions in order to allow a non-root user perform such tasks: 1.

sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-14 Thread Beeblebrox
... Regards. - 10-Current-amd64-using ccache-portstree merged with marcuscom.gnome3 xorg.devel -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/sata-ata-device-permission-for-user-tp5803691p5803879.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive

sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-14 Thread Beeblebrox
is what I am unable to figure out. - 10-Current-amd64-using ccache-portstree merged with marcuscom.gnome3 xorg.devel -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/sata-ata-device-permission-for-user-tp5803691p5803900.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list

rescan of sata channels

2012-12-11 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there a way to detach and attach a device on a sata channel in FreeBSD 9 on FreeBSD 8 I used atacontrol detach to detach a sata HD bevor removing it from a hotswap bay and atacontroll attach to rescan the channel after inserting a new

supermicro sat2-mv8 sata raid card driver

2012-10-22 Thread ds
Hello, are there any plans to provide a driver for the supermicro sat2-mv8 (8-port) sata raid card ? Kind regards, Dirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

ahcich Timeouts SATA SSD

2012-10-12 Thread Keegan,Nate
My configuration is as follows: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Supermicro X8DTi-LN4F (Intel Tylersburg 5520 chipset) motherboard 24 GB system memory 32 x Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 disks connected to 4 x Intel SASUC8I (LSI 3081E-R) in IT mode 2 x Crucial M4 64 Gb SATA SSD for FreeBSD OS (zroot) 2 x Intel 320

SATA Controllers

2012-10-09 Thread Doug Hardie
Looking through the list of SATA Controllers available at Best Buy, I don't find any of them listed on the 9.0 hardware page. I need a couple cheap ones (for non-production systems). Does anyone have recommendations? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/10/2012 12:00 PM, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: Hi, i just forgot to add following output from FreeBSD 8.3: # atacontrol status ar0 ar0: ATA RAID1 status: READY subdisks: 0 ad4 ONLINE 1 ad6 ONLINE Thanks, Bosko Hi Bosko, For FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE see the release notes

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# gmirror list gmirror: Command 'list' not available. # gmirror status gmirror: Command 'status' not available. gmirror load It is probably soft-RAID, but I prefer to use it though appropriate driver instead of classical software RAID configured through OS. i would recommend otherwise.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/10/2012 12:11 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It is always better to use gmirror instead of hardware RAID. One have full control over what is going on mmh not always. Nothing replaces a good hardware RAID card with a BBU for real reason i used parantheses for word hardware. That's clear

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bosko Radivojevic
Hi Bas, thank you for response. 'geom disk list' gives me list of disks, but 'geom raid load;geom raid list' doesn't give anything. I've tried 'geom load mirror', but 'geom mirror list' is also empty. What next? :) Thanks! ___

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's clear to me. These hardware raid controllers are not very reliable because they are indeed not real hardware raid controllers, but software based. Maybe for desktop usage it's ok/ good enough? precise what is desktop usage is. i don't see a reason for doing mirroring for home use. It

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
'geom raid load;geom raid list' doesn't give anything. I've tried 'geom load mirror', but 'geom mirror list' is also empty. what other do you expect with no mirrors created yet? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/10/2012 12:20 PM, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: Hi Bas, thank you for response. 'geom disk list' gives me list of disks, but 'geom raid load;geom raid list' doesn't give anything. I've tried 'geom load mirror', but 'geom mirror list' is also empty. What next? :) Thanks! Hi Bosko, I do not

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bosko Radivojevic
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what other do you expect with no mirrors created yet? But mirror (raid10) array is created through LSI MegaRAID BIOS. I'm trying to replicate behaviour from FreeBSD 8.3 (array created through RAID BIOS, seen

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bosko Radivojevic
I proceeded with: graid label Intel raid RAID1 ada0 ada1. Hope this works what I want :) On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Bosko Radivojevic bosko.radivoje...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what other do you expect with

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/10/2012 12:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: That's clear to me. These hardware raid controllers are not very reliable because they are indeed not real hardware raid controllers, but software based. Maybe for desktop usage it's ok/ good enough? precise what is desktop usage is. Here at

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what other do you expect with no mirrors created yet? But mirror (raid10) array is created through LSI MegaRAID BIOS. I'm if it is RAID10 i assume you

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi Bosko, I do not have any experience with these kind of controllers, so I could just guess. I have a lot ;) but the only thing i always do is to disable RAID in BIOS just after receiving new machine. whole experience. ___

FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-09 Thread Bosko Radivojevic
Hi all! I have a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0 on Fujitsu Primergy RX200 S5 server with LSI MegaRAID SATA controller (two SATA HDDs in RAID1 array). When booted from a CD, FreeBSD doesn't recognize RAID Array, it recognizes HDDs only (ad4 ad6). On the same server, FreeBSD 8.3 installation

Re: Many SATA disks

2012-04-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 3/31/2012 6:28 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: We would like to build a FreeBSD machine ourselves with many (~15) SATA drives, but NOT use a RAID controller. We want to be able to remove any drive and connect it to an ordinary motherboard SATA port and mount the filesystem using only the OS

Many SATA disks

2012-03-31 Thread Daniel Feenberg
We would like to build a FreeBSD machine ourselves with many (~15) SATA drives, but NOT use a RAID controller. We want to be able to remove any drive and connect it to an ordinary motherboard SATA port and mount the filesystem using only the OS provided drivers and tools. I have built many

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
from my previous message: Does growisofs work on CDRs or only DVDs? If 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't work at all, how do I get the SCSI device n:n:n? Use camcontrol? I see both FreeBSD and NetBSD have makefs (which can make a UFS/FFS or iso file system, taking the place of mkisofs in

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
I built and installed sysutils/cdrtools when there was a thread on burncd and SATA, but cdrecord can't see anything (running cdrecord -scanbus): cdrecord: Inappropriate ioctl for device. CAMIOCOMMAND ioctl failed. Cannot open or use SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:23:13 + (GMT), Thomas Mueller wrote: After I failed to burn a CD in NetBSD (5.1_STABLE) on the older computer (i386) with cdrecord, I booted into FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE and was successful with burncd. That drive was CD-RW, ATAPI, that computer has ATA but no SATA. Good

Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
What software, base or ports, is used to burn a CD or DVD on a SATA drive, /dev/cd0 ? Would burncd be appropriate, or do I need cdrtools? Or cdrkit? This is on FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64. I built and installed sysutils/cdrtools when there was a thread on burncd and SATA, but cdrecord can't see

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:32:16 + (GMT), Thomas Mueller wrote: What software, base or ports, is used to burn a CD or DVD on a SATA drive, /dev/cd0 ? Would burncd be appropriate, or do I need cdrtools? Or cdrkit? This is on FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64. I can imagine that in 9.0 where acd

SATA SDD cards

2011-06-15 Thread Rob
Has anyone tried using an SATA SSD card (SATA add-on card that is a SSD drive) in FreeBSD? I was looking at an OCZ RevoDrive and was wondering if anyone had tried using one of those specifically, or any SATA SSD card in general. Rob ___ freebsd

Re: SATA SDD cards

2011-06-15 Thread Robert Simmons
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Rob li...@midsummerdream.org wrote: Has anyone tried using an SATA SSD card (SATA add-on card that is a SSD drive) in FreeBSD?  I was looking at an OCZ RevoDrive and was wondering if anyone had tried using one of those specifically, or any SATA SSD card

Re: SATA Host Adapter Recommendation

2011-05-22 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 21, 2011 7:26:22 PM -0700, Jason C. Wells is alleged to have said: I am looking to get 2 sata host adapters. The mandatory requirements are good freebsd support and hot swap capability. I plan to use gmirror. I have discovered that my onboard chipsets don't support hot swap

SATA Host Adapter Recommendation

2011-05-21 Thread Jason C. Wells
I am looking to get 2 sata host adapters. The mandatory requirements are good freebsd support and hot swap capability. I plan to use gmirror. I have discovered that my onboard chipsets don't support hot swap. The highpoint cards are rated highly on newegg. Are these good with freebsd

Re: SATA Host Adapter Recommendation

2011-05-21 Thread Rob
servers with them now, but FreeBSD recognizes the disks attached to them fine (so long as your on = 8.2 and you add hw.hptrr.attach_generic=0 in /boot/loader.conf). I haven't tried hot-swapping any drives yet, but I'm assuming since it's SATA it should work fine. I should probably verify that soon

Best SATA/SAS controller for ZFS on FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE?

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Pooser
My hardware: Dell 1950 with dual quad-core X5450 processors, 16GB RAM, boot drive connected to a SAS 6/iR controller (mpt0), pair of external ACARD 9010 RAMDisks (da3 da4) connected to an LSI SAS3801E controller (mpt1). The RAMdisks are configured in a ZFS mirror (Backbone) in hopes of both high

Re: how to enable NCQ on Intel ESB2 AHCI SATA?controller/ST31000340NS

2011-03-24 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:37:11 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: DN If you do a verbose boot, you should get a couple more lines printed: DN DN ahci0: Caps: 64bit NCQ SNTF AL CLO 3Gbps PM PMD SSC PSC 32cmd CCC EM 6ports DN ahci0: Caps2: DN ahci0: EM Caps: ALHD XMT SMB LED DN DN If you see NCQ in your Caps

Re: how to enable NCQ on Intel ESB2 AHCI SATA controller/ST31000340NS

2011-03-23 Thread Dan Nelson
(62089A2)' class = mass storage subclass = SATA bar [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x18a0, size 8, enabled bar [14] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x1874, size 4, enabled bar [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x1878, size 8, enabled bar [1c

how to enable NCQ on Intel ESB2 AHCI SATA controller/ST31000340NS

2011-03-22 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
= SATA bar [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x18a0, size 8, enabled bar [14] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x1874, size 4, enabled bar [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x1878, size 8, enabled bar [1c] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x1870, size 4, enabled bar

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-25 Thread perryh
Bahman Kahinpour bahman.li...@gmail.com wrote: Is AHCI mode the best mode for SATA controller? (highest speed, utilizing all fancy features, ...) In general, probably yes, provided the combination of hardware and driver actually works properly _all_ the time :) AHCI is new enough

Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hello FreeBSD people all over the world, There is an onboard Intel SATA controller on Intel DH55HC motherboard. I have tried FreeBSD version 7.3 and 8.1 on this motherboard, it recognizes the SATA controller but recognizes the hard disk as IDE devices. How can this happen? $ uname -a FreeBSD

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Do you mean that both traditional IDE drives and these new SATA drives both begin with ad in FreeBSD? I am new to FreeBSD, I have just migrated from Linux. In Linux, traditional IDE drives used to begin with hd and these new SATA drives began with sd and recognized as SCSI devices. I expected

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/25/11 00:01, Bahman Kahinpour wrote: Do you mean that both traditional IDE drives and these new SATA drives both begin with ad in FreeBSD? I am new to FreeBSD, I have just migrated from Linux. In Linux, traditional IDE drives used to begin with hd and these new SATA drives began with sd

RE: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Bahman Kahinpour [mailto:bahman.li...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 January 2011 11:40 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1) Hello FreeBSD people all over the world, There is an onboard

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Oh man, I really liked your answer, thanks so much. I disabled all legacy options in the BIOS (SATA controller is in AHCI mode which I do not know what it is) and added this little ahci_load=YES thing to /boot/loader.conf and now my hard drives are recognized as: (and changed fstab and of course

Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-11 Thread krad
On 10 January 2011 21:46, Carl Chave c...@chave.us wrote: snip echo -en \n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and reboot zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n Thanks for the input krad. It would be nice to easily

Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-11 Thread krad
On 11 January 2011 09:09, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2011 21:46, Carl Chave c...@chave.us wrote: snip echo -en \n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and reboot zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n

Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-11 Thread krad
On 11 January 2011 09:19, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 January 2011 09:09, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2011 21:46, Carl Chave c...@chave.us wrote: snip echo -en \n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and reboot zfs set mountpoint=legacy

Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-10 Thread krad
below install the base system with zfs root on a usb stick and /tmp /usr /var and swap on mirrored sata drives. I've tested these steps and everything works but before I press on with actually configuring and using the server, does anybody have any input on whether I should or shouldn't do

Re: ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-10 Thread Carl Chave
snip echo -en \n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and reboot  zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot  zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n Thanks for the input krad. It would be nice to easily switch back and forth but aren't you still stuck if everything

ZFS + GPT with root on memory stick and mirrored SATA drives

2011-01-09 Thread Carl Chave
and swap on mirrored sata drives. I've tested these steps and everything works but before I press on with actually configuring and using the server, does anybody have any input on whether I should or shouldn't do it this way? ZFS best practices suggests that having elements of the root filesystem

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-12 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/11/10 21:22, Alejandro Imass wrote: 1) Would damage to the 2 disks cause damae on the other 2? Not likely but in your situation it might damage the controller, in which nothing you do to the drives will help. In the worst case, the controller then might in turn damage the drives.

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-12 Thread Alejandro Imass
. In the worst case, the controller then might in turn damage the drives. I was under the impression that SATA was not that sensible to hot unplugging, in fact I thought that SATA supports hot pluging, so by yanking the wires out it should not have damaged the disks or the controller IMO. But you might

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-12 Thread Ivan Voras
the controller, in which nothing you do to the drives will help. In the worst case, the controller then might in turn damage the drives. I was under the impression that SATA was not that sensible to hot unplugging, in fact I thought that SATA supports hot pluging, so by yanking the wires out it should

Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
Hello, I have a 4drive zfs pool with raidz on FBSD 8 and I accidentally tripped and yanked the sata wires off 2 drives while it was running. I immediately shutdown the server, fixed the wiring and re-started the server. Incredibly I ran zpool status and zpool scrub and only 8 files were damaged

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:22:41 -0400, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: 2) Is there a utility in FBSD to check the physical drive itself and mark any bad sectors as such? There is smartctl in port smartmontools, and badsect provided by the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:22:41 -0400, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: 2) Is there a utility in FBSD to check the physical drive itself and mark any bad sectors as such? There is smartctl in port smartmontools, and badsect

Re: Problem adding 1TB SATA disk to system

2010-09-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
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Re: Problem adding 1TB SATA disk to system

2010-09-24 Thread Andy Wodfer
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.comwrote: Andy Wodfer wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 release (will upgrade to 8.1 STABLE tonight). However, I'm having big problems adding a new harddrive to the system. I want a separate 1TB SATA installed to recover

Problem adding 1TB SATA disk to system

2010-09-16 Thread Andy Wodfer
Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 release (will upgrade to 8.1 STABLE tonight). However, I'm having big problems adding a new harddrive to the system. I want a separate 1TB SATA installed to recover backup files on, but when I add it I only get error messages: dmesg: ad2: 953869MB WDC WD1000FYPS

Re: Problem adding 1TB SATA disk to system

2010-09-16 Thread Michael Powell
Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 8.0 release (will upgrade to 8.1 STABLE tonight). However, I'm having big problems adding a new harddrive to the system. I want a separate 1TB SATA installed to recover backup files on, but when I add it I only get error messages: dmesg

Re: Sata Tape Drives

2010-07-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Il 07/16/10 00:24, Dan Nelson ha scritto: In the last episode (Jul 15), Michael Anderson said: Or, more clearly: Are SATA tape drives supported? I see they are on some other BSD flavors, but I haven't found any mention in the FreeBSD hardware compatibility documents. I see an atapist device

Re: Sata Tape Drives

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Anderson
Or, more clearly: Are SATA tape drives supported? I see they are on some other BSD flavors, but I haven't found any mention in the FreeBSD hardware compatibility documents. Will the OS just see a tape drive on a SATA controller as a sequential-access SCSI device the way it sees SATA disks

Re: Sata Tape Drives

2010-07-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 15), Michael Anderson said: Or, more clearly: Are SATA tape drives supported? I see they are on some other BSD flavors, but I haven't found any mention in the FreeBSD hardware compatibility documents. I see an atapist device in /sys/conf/NOTES: device atapist

Quantum DLT SATA tape drive

2010-07-14 Thread alpha-lemming
Hello, I'm looking to replace a busted tape ATA DAT drive with a Quantum DLT SATA drive. Is this supported? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Sata Tape Drives

2010-07-14 Thread Michael Anderson
Hello, I'm looking to replace a busted tape drive with a Quantum DLT SATA drive. Is this supported? Thanks! -- Michael Anderson IT Services Support elego Software Solutions GmbH Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 Building 12.3 (BIG) room 227 13355 Berlin, Germany phone +49 30 23 45 86 96

Re: Recommended supported SATA Cards?

2010-07-01 Thread Rob
know the current state of functionality for the above Marvell chipsets? Rob On 06/30/2010 09:07 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 06/29/10 16:58, Rob wrote: I've been trying to find a PCI-e SATA II (300MB/s) controller card for a FreeBSD 8.0 system, but am having problems determining if FreeBSD

Re: Recommended supported SATA Cards?

2010-07-01 Thread Henrik Hudson
SATA II (300MB/s) controller card for a FreeBSD 8.0 system, but am having problems determining if FreeBSD 8.0 will support them. Ideally I'd like to find one that is not a HW Raid controller, as I don't need that functionality since I place to use ZFS and the HW Raid on the card just gets

Re: Recommended supported SATA Cards?

2010-06-30 Thread Steve Polyack
On 06/29/10 16:58, Rob wrote: I've been trying to find a PCI-e SATA II (300MB/s) controller card for a FreeBSD 8.0 system, but am having problems determining if FreeBSD 8.0 will support them. Ideally I'd like to find one that is not a HW Raid controller, as I don't need that functionality

Re: Recommended supported SATA Cards?

2010-06-30 Thread Rob
, Steve Polyack wrote: On 06/29/10 16:58, Rob wrote: I've been trying to find a PCI-e SATA II (300MB/s) controller card for a FreeBSD 8.0 system, but am having problems determining if FreeBSD 8.0 will support them. Ideally I'd like to find one that is not a HW Raid controller, as I don't need

Re: Recommended supported SATA Cards?

2010-06-30 Thread Diego Arias
of functionality for the above Marvell chipsets? Rob On 06/30/2010 09:07 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 06/29/10 16:58, Rob wrote: I've been trying to find a PCI-e SATA II (300MB/s) controller card for a FreeBSD 8.0 system, but am having problems determining if FreeBSD 8.0 will support them

Recommended supported SATA Cards?

2010-06-29 Thread Rob
I've been trying to find a PCI-e SATA II (300MB/s) controller card for a FreeBSD 8.0 system, but am having problems determining if FreeBSD 8.0 will support them. Ideally I'd like to find one that is not a HW Raid controller, as I don't need that functionality since I place to use ZFS

Problem with system install with Toshiba MK2565GSX SATA disk

2010-06-24 Thread bsd
Hello, I am trying to install a toshiba HD on an appliance, the Toshiba is a MK2565GSX of 250GB described here:http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/storage/english/spec/hdd25/65.htm#spec02 The system I am trying to install is pfSense (FBSD 7.2). I am not a 100% sure about the disk geometry… as It is

Re: Problem with system install with Toshiba MK2565GSX SATA disk

2010-06-24 Thread bsd
Looks like the problem was related to BIOS setting. I have changed the setting of disk detection from AUTO to LBA and this has allowed me to boot on the disk. One more question: With the disk I am using FBSD seems to have two possibility for the partition table size (or at least depending

RE: Need help with SATA disk timing out in 8.1 Beta

2010-06-19 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Jerry Bell [mailto:je...@nrdx.com] Sent: 18 June 2010 06:11 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Need help with SATA disk timing out in 8.1 Beta I am having all sorts of problems with drives in a new server. I have a 450G sata drive that hold my root

Re: Need help with SATA disk timing out in 8.1 Beta

2010-06-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jerry Bell je...@nrdx.com wrote: I am having all sorts of problems with drives in a new server. I have a 450G sata drive that hold my root partition, works great, no issues. I have a second, 1TB drive that has been all sorts of trouble. When writing

Re: Need help with SATA disk timing out in 8.1 Beta

2010-06-18 Thread Matthias Gamsjager
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Re: Need help with SATA disk timing out in 8.1 Beta

2010-06-18 Thread Jerry Bell
Yes, twice. On 6/18/2010 4:52 AM, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: Have you changed the cable? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Need help with SATA disk timing out in 8.1 Beta

2010-06-17 Thread Jerry Bell
I am having all sorts of problems with drives in a new server. I have a 450G sata drive that hold my root partition, works great, no issues. I have a second, 1TB drive that has been all sorts of trouble. When writing to this disk, I occasionally see errors like this: Jun 17 07:40:36 www3

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Casey Scott
I'd appreciate it if someone could lend some assistance with this issue. The machine in question is pretty much unusable atm! Regards, Casey - Casey Scott ca...@phantombsd.org wrote: Since upgrading to 8.0 RELEASE, I continually get these errors: ... Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: ad6:

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