Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-14 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a build is going on. I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an ASUS M4A89TD PRO / USB3 motherboard. The system works fine unless I start a cpu-intensive

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-05 Thread Eugene
temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor) You can also try shutting down (obviously), then removing the heat sink, put some thermal paste on the processor and reinstall the heat sink. Sometimes there isn't much (any) thermal paste there and the processor can't get the heat into the heat sink

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-05 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 05/08/2013 06:05, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/04/13 21:39, Frank Leonhardt wrote: This suggests it's not the ACPI in FreeBSD shutting you down, but something on the motherboard. That was my guess as well. big snip As it's probably not FreeBSD you're now asking on the wrong list, and other

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-05 Thread Perry Hutchison
Gary Aitken vagab...@blackfoot.net wrote: Air ducting shouldn't be a problem; I've got the side of the case off... This just might be part of the problem. Air plumbing is not as forgiving as it was in the old days. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-05 Thread RW
On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:33:55 +0400 Eugene wrote: Hello Gary, Also make sure there is no packed dirt on the heatsink -- I don't know about AMDs, but older Intel heatsinks often tend to accumulate a paper-like layer of dirt on the 'top' of heatsink grid, blocking the airflow. I once had

Re: hardware monitor

2013-08-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:48:56 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: Can anyone suggest a hardware monitor app in the ports tree? I've got an amd64 which may have a temperature issue, but I can't see it to tell... If it's primarily about temperature... amdtemp (kernel module), healthd (system service),

Re: hardware monitor

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 04/08/2013 21:48, Gary Aitken wrote: Can anyone suggest a hardware monitor app in the ports tree? I've got an amd64 which may have a temperature issue, but I can't see it to tell... Try sysctl hw.acpi.thermal For more information see man acpi and man acpi_thermal. If you're lucky it

AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a build is going on. I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an ASUS M4A89TD PRO / USB3 motherboard. The system works fine unless I start a cpu-intensive build. If I leave it unattended, after some

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a build is going on. I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an ASUS M4A89TD PRO / USB3 motherboard. The system works fine unless I start a cpu-intensive

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Joshua Isom
On 8/4/2013 6:29 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a build is going on. I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an ASUS M4A89TD PRO / USB3 motherboard. The system works

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 05/08/2013 00:29, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a build is going on. I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an ASUS M4A89TD PRO / USB3 motherboard. The system works

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/04/13 18:30, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 05/08/2013 00:29, Gary Aitken wrote: On 08/04/13 17:22, Gary Aitken wrote: Ok, so now I see that my cpu temperature shoots up pretty dang fast when a build is going on. I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 with the AMD-supplied fan in an ASUS

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 05/08/2013 03:01, Gary Aitken wrote: 50C isn't crazy. Actually, the 50C figure is just where it shoots to for starters. Mfg specs say 62C max, so I stall the process when it gets around 59 and still climbing steeply. The manufactures specs I found when I looked that range of CPUs up was

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/04/13 21:39, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 05/08/2013 03:01, Gary Aitken wrote: 50C isn't crazy. Actually, the 50C figure is just where it shoots to for starters. Mfg specs say 62C max, so I stall the process when it gets around 59 and still climbing steeply. The manufactures specs I

Re: AMD Phenom II X4 temperature issues (was Re: hardware monitor)

2013-08-04 Thread Peter Giessel
You can also try shutting down (obviously), then removing the heat sink, put some thermal paste on the processor and reinstall the heat sink. Sometimes there isn't much (any) thermal paste there and the processor can't get the heat into the heat sink. On 2013, Aug 4, at 15:22, Gary Aitken

Re: Hardware recommendations, not enterprise budget.

2012-10-30 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Oct 29, 2012 10:57 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: Soon I'll be purchasing a wireless N card for my current FreeBSD system since I'm not yet ready to add ethernet to my house. What would be the current recommendations for using wireless N on FreeBSD? My router is a Linksys E2000,

Re: Hardware compatability question

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, it's not really about the machines but more the hardware. FreeBSD is quite diverse in what it can run on so best bet check the HCL's off the www.freebsd.org website as that would give you the best idea! Otherwise just install and see what works and doesn't. FreeBSD is pretty comprehensive

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-22 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:10 +1000 Da Rock articulated: The most annoying for me was when they're running Win7 (blah!) and I was trying to burn a cd _and_ keep the kids from interrupting by playing on the keyboard. I closed the lid like I do with FBSD and it suspended! Grr! That behavior is

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-22 Thread Da Rock
On 02/23/12 08:33, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:10 +1000 Da Rock articulated: The most annoying for me was when they're running Win7 (blah!) and I was trying to burn a cd _and_ keep the kids from interrupting by playing on the keyboard. I closed the lid like I do with FBSD and it

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-22 Thread Da Rock
On 02/23/12 11:57, Da Rock wrote: On 02/23/12 08:33, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:10 +1000 Da Rock articulated: The most annoying for me was when they're running Win7 (blah!) and I was trying to burn a cd _and_ keep the kids from interrupting by playing on the keyboard. I closed the

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:05 +1000, Da Rock wrote: To the OP, check the pages Polytropon has linked here, but the chances of getting exactly that are nil to impossible. I've run about 6 or more laptops now without too much trouble. The biggest problems were wireless, but that was the bad

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:35:43PM +0100, Riccardo Garzelli wrote: Dear Information service I was thinking of purchasing a new laptop and I wanted to go for FreeBSD OS. Unfortunately I'm no brainer in Unix so I'd like to find a PC that can run FreeBSD 9.0 out of the box. The best way to

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:35:43 +0100, Riccardo Garzelli wrote: I was thinking of purchasing a new laptop and I wanted to go for FreeBSD OS. Unfortunately I'm no brainer in Unix so I'd like to find a PC that can run FreeBSD 9.0 out of the box. Could you either tell me which hardware are suitable

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Da Rock
On 02/21/12 05:35, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:35:43 +0100, Riccardo Garzelli wrote: I was thinking of purchasing a new laptop and I wanted to go for FreeBSD OS. Unfortunately I'm no brainer in Unix so I'd like to find a PC that can run FreeBSD 9.0 out of the box. Could you either

Re: Hardware booting problem

2011-09-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:34 AM 9/15/2011, Doug Hardie wrote: I encountered a situation today that I do not understand. This is a very old i386 PC that does not have a usable CD drive. The existing drive uses a very funky SCSI connector that I have nothing for. The system disk is SCSI and there was one

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Polytropon cc list, I wrote: You could look at man fsdb FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided by the base system, are fetch -rR device and also recoverdisk. In the ports collection you'll find tools

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-23 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Reference: From:         Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Date:         Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:21 -0400 Message-id:   banlktikm6asm5uddryhqmb3w_ruxvd4...@mail.gmail.com [...] Announcing you'r thinking if suing the

Re: Other lists exist too - Was Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Robert, Thanks for your repsonse, I mailed postmas...@freebsd.org that this thread exists, invited him to consider list definitions in light of past, present possible future response that may be psoted on this thread. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:21 -0400 Message-id: banlktikm6asm5uddryhqmb3w_ruxvd4...@mail.gmail.com Alejandro Imass wrote: Hi folks, I recently sent a hard drive to be recovered and I think they just ripped me off. I

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 21 May 2011 21:14:39 +0200, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Alejandro Imass wrote: Hi folks, I recently sent a hard drive to be recovered and I think they just ripped me off. I have the back-up drive and believe it or not it has the same exact symptoms and won't mount.

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 21 May 2011 14:14:39 -0500, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: I really trust the people on this list so hopefully you can point me to a real and non-bullshit lab that can really recover data. Gillware, Inc. Here's a referral code as well: 13967 http://www.gillware.com/

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Polytropon cc list, you wrote You could look at man fsdb FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided by the base system, are fetch -rR device and also recoverdisk. In the ports collection you'll find tools like

Other lists exist too - Was Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
For Alejandro Imass as original poster re. Hardware Recovery Company: FreebSD has a special mail list for file systeme it's name is f...@freebsd.org. (we also have hardware@ etc) For all, Questions@ started as a catch all fallback address for simple beginners questions from

[OT] Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-20 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Hi folks, I recently sent a hard drive to be recovered and I think they just ripped me off. I have the back-up drive and believe it or not it has the same exact symptoms and won't mount. So I want to send both drives to a

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-28 Thread Nathan Vidican
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Jaime Kikpole jkikp...@cairodurham.org wrote: My thanks to everyone for their replies.  I guess that I wasn't specific enough about my needs, though.  I don't need a tiny chassis. In fact, I need a proxy for around 750-900 computers, so an Atom system or the

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-27 Thread Nathan Vidican
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Jaime Kikpole jkikp...@cairodurham.org wrote: I'm looking for new hardware for my web filter (FreeBSD + dansguardian + squid). Can anyone suggest good (or warn about bad) models of hardware for this?  I'm looking for a small tower or compact chassis (not

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-27 Thread Jaime Kikpole
My thanks to everyone for their replies. I guess that I wasn't specific enough about my needs, though. I don't need a tiny chassis. In fact, I need a proxy for around 750-900 computers, so an Atom system or the like wouldn't work for me. I just have no rack space left. Fortunately, I might

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Jaime Kikpole jkikp...@cairodurham.orgwrote: My thanks to everyone for their replies. I guess that I wasn't specific enough about my needs, though. I don't need a tiny chassis. In fact, I need a proxy for around 750-900 computers, so an Atom system or the

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Jaime Kikpole jkikp...@cairodurham.org wrote: I'm looking for new hardware for my web filter (FreeBSD + dansguardian + squid). Can anyone suggest good (or warn about bad) models of hardware for this? I'm looking for a small tower or compact chassis (not rack

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-26 Thread Jaime Kikpole
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed? Space issues. They'll have to either fit on a shelf in one of two rooms, depending on the outcome of some other things. Any thoughts on brand or model? Thanks, Jaime

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 26/04/2011 18:45, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed? Space issues. They'll have to either fit on a shelf in one of two rooms, depending on the outcome of some other things.

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-26 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:09:41 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com articulated: On 26/04/2011 18:45, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed? Space issues. They'll have to

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-26 Thread Karl Vogel
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:04:34 -0400, Jaime Kikpole jkikp...@cairodurham.org said: J I'm looking for new hardware for my web filter (FreeBSD + dansguardian + J squid). Have a look at the Ars Technica system guides for suggestions on rolling your own PC. They discuss three general-purpose

Re: Hardware support for Shuttle SX38P2 Pro

2010-11-21 Thread Maciej Milewski
On Sunday 21 November 2010 17:19:05, Ben Quick wrote: I don't really know what either of them are. I'm assuming the Matrix Storage is the RAID controller. Is this supported? If not, I'll just use gmirror, but will obviously have to be able to access the disks in the first instance. AFAIK this

Re: Hardware support for Shuttle SX38P2 Pro

2010-11-21 Thread Ben Quick
On 21/11/2010 17:25, Maciej Milewski wrote: On Sunday 21 November 2010 17:19:05, Ben Quick wrote: I don't really know what either of them are. I'm assuming the Matrix Storage is the RAID controller. Is this supported? If not, I'll just use gmirror, but will obviously have to be able to access

Re: Hardware monitoring with iDRAC6

2010-06-18 Thread krad
On 17 June 2010 17:38, Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: On 06/17/10 12:02, Martin Turgeon wrote: Hi again everyone, I just realized after posting my question on optimal RAID config that the best solution for hardware monitoring would be to use the integrated iDRAC6. I have the

Re: Hardware monitoring with iDRAC6

2010-06-17 Thread Steve Polyack
On 06/17/10 12:02, Martin Turgeon wrote: Hi again everyone, I just realized after posting my question on optimal RAID config that the best solution for hardware monitoring would be to use the integrated iDRAC6. I have the Express version (no dedicated port). I have never worked with DRAC

Re: Hardware vendor

2010-05-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
iXSystems (http://www.ixsystems.com/) ... they are a BSD shop,period ... Been dealing iwth them a couple of years now for production servers, haven't been disappointed yet ... On Thu, 6 May 2010, Lonnie CasaDeCalvo wrote: Hi, Can you make a recomondation to a hardware supplier that will

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-29 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Thu, 18-Mar-2010 at 09:37:32 +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-19 Thread Andy Wodfer
Thanks for all your feedback. The problem occurs in the RAID controller BIOS (before we even boot or get to the OS install). Thanks to John for confirming these cards do work above 2TB. I will look into upgrading the firmware (on these brand new cards). Perhaps it's just the current firmware

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Matthew Law
On Thu, March 18, 2010 8:37 am, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Andy Wodfer
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote: Is ZFS not an option? I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system and it works great, but here the requirement is RAID5, hotswap, hotspare and so on. Cheers, Andreas

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18.03.2010 10:35, Andy Wodfer wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law m...@webcontracts.co.ukwrote: Is ZFS not an option? I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system and it works great, but

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/03/2010 10:09:55, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:37:32AM +0100, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives).

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Konference
Hi and what about Areca? Natively supported via arcmsr driver. For SATA II http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm (ARC-1230, ARC-1260) or http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie341.htm On one installation I have successfully set up RAID5 with 8x 1TB SATA II drives on ARC-1220, approx 6.5TB

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:37 AM 3/18/2010, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we couldn't create a

Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid

2010-03-18 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 18 March 2010 03:37:32 Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, We're setting up two backup servers where each server will have about 4TB of harddrives (for now) connected (4x1TB and 8x500GB drives). Last night we ran into trouble with the 3ware controllers we have (9650SE-8LPML) because we

Re: Hardware suppport

2010-01-04 Thread Sergio Tam
2010/1/4 Albert Hanslin albert.hans...@action-one.ch: I tried to find out if the HP ProLiant DL380 G6 Server is supported. Unfortunately the link under FreeBSD/i386 Projct - Hardware List does not work. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html

Re: Hardware suppport

2010-01-04 Thread Sergio Tam
2010/1/4 Sergio Tam tam.ser...@gmail.com: 2010/1/4 Albert Hanslin albert.hans...@action-one.ch: I tried to find out if the HP ProLiant DL380 G6 Server is supported. [...] Please let me know if the ProLiant DL380 G6 Server is supported, thank you. Hi again

Re: Hardware virtualization

2009-12-31 Thread David Rawling
On 31/12/2009 9:00 AM, Nenad Mihajlovic wrote: Hello, For the Intel processors VT support, you can check up on http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx go for no less than dual-core 8400. and for the AMD desktop processors, here: http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUResult.aspx and some of new X4

Re: Hardware virtualization

2009-12-30 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com wrote: I am about to buy a new desktop, and I want to make sure that hardware virtualization is included. In one or two local computer stores, I get a blank look when I ask about this. Intel seems provide it on only certain

Re: Hardware virtualization

2009-12-30 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: Diego F. Arias R. dak@gmail.com Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:24:24 -0500 On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com wrote: I am about to buy a new desktop, and I want to make sure that hardware

Re: Hardware virtualization

2009-12-30 Thread Nenad Mihajlovic
Hello, For the Intel processors VT support, you can check up on http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx go for no less than dual-core 8400. and for the AMD desktop processors, here: http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUResult.aspx and some of new X4 phenoms. Either AMD or Intel, both are good

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Frank Wissmann
Achilleas Mantzios schrieb: Hi! Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). Well, you know that i386 is Intel, do you? It

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Achilleas Mantzios mantzios.ach...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). My current

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Robert Huff
Frank Wissmann writes: i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). b) migrate all current data to the new hardware, kernel/system included, and then try to upgrade to

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
fine. Achilleas Mantzios --- On Fri, 12/4/09, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice To: Achilleas Mantzios mantzios.ach...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread RW
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:07:41 +0100 Frank Wissmann frank.wissman...@web.de wrote: Achilleas Mantzios schrieb: Hi! Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:24:24 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon I can't seem to find usbconf. % usbconf usbconf: Command not found. % whereis usbconf usbconf: Is it a third party application? My mistake, sorry. Of course it's usbdevs, a tool that comes

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-11 Thread Masoom Shaikh
devinfo -v On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks.

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Josh Carroll wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks.

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:07:51 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: % pciconf -lv man pciconf for further details. Additionally: usbconf to list USB devices, and camcontrol to list SCSI devices, as well as atacontrol for ATA devices. And finally, dmesg. :-) Note that these

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:07:51 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: % pciconf -lv man pciconf for further details. Additionally: usbconf to list USB devices, and camcontrol to list SCSI devices, as well as atacontrol for ATA devices. And finally, dmesg.

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:07:51 + Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: Josh Carroll wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-10 Thread Anders Troback
Den Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:24:24 + skrev Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com: Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:07:51 +, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: % pciconf -lv man pciconf for further details. Additionally: usbconf to list USB devices, and

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM, gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all: How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used dmesg and var/run/dmesg.boot, it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. which file lists all of hardware in the machine? Thanks. Give the

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-07 Thread Frank Bonnet
Pieter Donche wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra disk, the hardware RAID controller

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-07 Thread Pieter Donche
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. what is RAID5 of RAID6??? RAID5 or RAID6 (sorry, typing error) If you

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:35:39AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. what is

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, what is RAID5 of RAID6??? To FreeBSD it will look like e.g. a single large drive. If you want to extend your disk space by plugging in an extra disk, the hardware RAID

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-06 Thread Mel
On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, what is RAID5 of RAID6??? 'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people. -- Mel Problem

Re: Hardware Raid + hot-replace failed disk

2008-11-06 Thread perryh
On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:01:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Suppose you have a system with multiple disks managed by a hardware RAID controller in a RAID5 of RAID6 configuration, what is RAID5 of RAID6??? 'of' is 'or' in dutch, common typo for dutch or flemish people. For Americans

Re: hardware information

2008-03-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 07), Fred C said: I have one of my disks over heating and I would like to monitor the disk temperature. Is there any way to get the disk S.M.A.R.T information on FreeBSD? Try the sysutils/smartmontools port. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hardware information

2008-03-07 Thread Walt Pawley
At 12:08 PM -0800 3/7/08, Fred C wrote: I have one of my disks over heating and I would like to monitor the disk temperature. Is there any way to get the disk S.M.A.R.T information on FreeBSD? How about smartmontools from ports? -- Walter M. Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wump Research Company 676

Re: hardware information

2008-03-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
smartmontools On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Fred C wrote: I have one of my disks over heating and I would like to monitor the disk temperature. Is there any way to get the disk S.M.A.R.T information on FreeBSD? -fred- -- Fred C! PGP-KeyID: E7EA02EC3B487EE9 PGP-FingerPrint:

Re: hardware information

2008-03-07 Thread beni
On Friday 07 March 2008 20:08:29 Fred C wrote: I have one of my disks over heating and I would like to monitor the disk temperature. Is there any way to get the disk S.M.A.R.T information on FreeBSD? -fred- The smartmontools in sysutils/smartmontools : The smartmontools package contains two

Re: hardware information

2008-03-07 Thread Fred C
Thank you all, that exactly what I needed. -fred- On Mar 7, 2008, at 12:43 PM, beni wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008 20:08:29 Fred C wrote: I have one of my disks over heating and I would like to monitor the disk temperature. Is there any way to get the disk S.M.A.R.T information on

RE: hardware problem

2008-02-28 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of D G Teed Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:54 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: DAve; FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: hardware problem On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-27 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:38:09PM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi guys, just take every part out and dust with a brush, reseat the m-board and hook on the power supply, switch on the power and both fans spin for quite a while, seeing this, I switch it off and start to connect all the

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-27 Thread D G Teed
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of D G Teed Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:22 AM To: DAve Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: hardware problem

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-26 Thread D G Teed
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 20:38 -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi guys, just take every part out and dust with a brush, reseat the m-board and hook on the power supply, switch on the power and both fans spin for quite a

RE: hardware problem

2008-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of D G Teed Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:22 AM To: DAve Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: hardware problem Every system I've seen with his description of the problem, where the power supply

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread DAve
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi guys, this is really not about freebsd per sa. But this is the only computer-related forum I use. so please forgive me. my desktop was relocated due to my recent moving to a new apartment. After settling down at the new place, I plug in the cables and the

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:06 AM 2/25/2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi guys, this is really not about freebsd per sa. But this is the only computer-related forum I use. so please forgive me. my desktop was relocated due to my recent moving to a new apartment. After settling down at the new place, I plug in the

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread D G Teed
Every system I've seen with his description of the problem, where the power supply can't even run it's own fan, is having a power supply problem. Power supplies are very often low quality these days and can't handle the stresses of typical electrical grid fluctuations. Most people who deal with

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
thank you all for helping. I will reinstall my main again from scratch. one thing i want to know is that if my m-board is short somewhere, does this mean my board is damaged? or it's okay if i can find out what is wrong, and so most likely i need to buy a power supply, is that right at the

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:58 AM 2/25/2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: thank you all for helping. I will reinstall my main again from scratch. one thing i want to know is that if my m-board is short somewhere, does this mean my board is damaged? or it's okay if i can find out what is wrong, and so most likely i need to

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Derek Ragona wrote: At 08:06 AM 2/25/2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi guys, this is really not about freebsd per sa. But this is the only computer-related forum I use. so please forgive me. my desktop was relocated due to my recent moving to a new apartment. After settling down at the new

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi guys, just take every part out and dust with a brush, reseat the m-board and hook on the power supply, switch on the power and both fans spin for quite a while, seeing this, I switch it off and start to connect all the cables. After all is done, i turn on the power again, and this time it

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