Re: ataraid and 9.0 RC-2

2011-11-27 Thread b. f.
I just ran freebsd-update to get up to 9.0-RC2 and discovered that ataraid does not work. I realize I'm an edge case and my scenario is not ideal (I use an ITE controller and performance is actually impressively slow), but I cannot boot 9.0 from my stripe, even after manually loading

Re: libarchive, lzma, and xz interaction

2011-07-02 Thread b. f.
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6558 at gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to understand the problems I am having on some systems regarding libarchive, lzma, and xz. I have an 8-Stable system updated yesterday. As far as I can tell, libarchive does include the lzma stuff from

Re: libarchive, lzma, and xz interaction

2011-07-02 Thread b. f.
On 7/2/11, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:32 PM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin Oberman kob6558 at gmail.com ... And you were right about the sequence o events. Due to a bug in the atkbd driver in 8.1 and 8.2 I

Re: Smartctl and ahci

2009-12-07 Thread b. f.
m running FreeBSD 8_Stable, and i started to use the ahci driver, all is fine All my drives are now detected as ada[0-9] But when i run smartctl it give me the following message: Smartctl version 5.38 [amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0] Copyright (c) 2002-9 Bruce allen ... Smartctl: Device read Identity

Re: how to mirror cvs or svn with rsync

2009-11-14 Thread b. f.
I need a mirror of FreeBSD sources. But the only one tool I can use for mirroring is rsync. I'm not quite sure why this is so: I wonder if you have examined all of your options, as others have written. Anyway, if you want to use rsync, have you tried any of the servers listed in:

Re: Some questions about da0 on USB2 (recent bad behaviour)

2009-10-26 Thread b. f.
On 10/26/09, Andrew Reilly arei...@bigpond.net.au wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 07:07:00PM +, b. f. wrote: ... I haven't run -current for, probably, ten years, and the occasional messages about lock-order-reversals worry me a bit, but don't seem to be doing any harm. Should I report

Re: Some questions about da0 on USB2 (recent bad behaviour)

2009-10-24 Thread b. f.
That is: it seems to work fine for some fraction of a minute (doesn't seem to be longer than a minute, anyway), and then stops completely for several minutes (processes reading or writing sit in D state in ps) and then starts again, after logging Request completed with CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR\nRetrying