Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-22 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Saturday 21 July 2007 20:50:21 Zoran Kolic wrote: This topic is extremely interesting. For me, unmounting usb device is not so hard to do. I remember -r flag to mount with just read option. So, if hand follows the brain impuls, put another impuls to unmount it first. Yup. But this is only

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:19:51 +0200 Stefan Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norberto Meijome schrieb: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:38:14 +0200 [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned earlier I remember it working during the 5.3 era on Stable, at some point it worked. I even

Re: removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

2007-07-22 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:44:13 -0600 (MDT) M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:02:50 -0600 (MDT) : M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

HOW TO: Setting up rails for shared hosting on a dedicated box. . .?

2007-07-22 Thread Michael Williams
Hi All, As you may already know, A partner and I recently purchased a dedicated FreeBSD box. We're currently using Plesk (blech!) to manage client domains and such. I'm curious though as to what the best (most manageable) setup/configuration is for supporting Rails for each of our

Help! My laptop drive may be dying.

2007-07-22 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Hi, My laptop drive might be dying. It is a Samsung MP0804H which I have used for around 28 months without issue. Every now and then it will click and sound as though it is thermally recalibrating itself. I ran SMART diagnostics from smartmontools, and Samsung's own diag tools which all

Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying.

2007-07-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:43 AM 7/22/2007, Bruce M Simpson wrote: I ran SMART diagnostics from smartmontools, and Samsung's own diag tools which all report the drive is OK (a full captive surface test). I see nothing untoward in the SMART info pages. Hi Bruce, These symptoms (the OS reporting errors, the

Re: Panic with umass (with USB tape and Amanda)

2007-07-22 Thread Juergen Lock
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hello everybody, Hi! I have just had a panic on 6.2 amd64 box with ehci connected USB DDS4 tape drive while it was for the first time being accessed with Amanda. I have previously successfully tested it with tar. I have a kernel crash dump with the

Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying.

2007-07-22 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: MT At 09:43 AM 7/22/2007, Bruce M Simpson wrote: MT I ran SMART diagnostics from smartmontools, and Samsung's own diag tools MT which all report the drive is OK (a full captive surface test). I see MT nothing untoward in the SMART info pages. MT MT Hi

Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying.

2007-07-22 Thread Paul Fraser
MT Hi Bruce, MT These symptoms (the OS reporting errors, the drive saying all A-OK) MT remind me of a bad cable/connector. Have you tried a new cable ? Hmm, in a laptop? ;) I've had a similar problem with a Dell notebook. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the hard drive (in fact,

Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying.

2007-07-22 Thread Søren Schmidt
Bruce M Simpson wrote: Hi, My laptop drive might be dying. It is a Samsung MP0804H which I have used for around 28 months without issue. Every now and then it will click and sound as though it is thermally recalibrating itself. I ran SMART diagnostics from smartmontools, and Samsung's own

Re: Help! My laptop drive may be dying.

2007-07-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:59 PM 7/22/2007, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: OK) MT remind me of a bad cable/connector. Have you tried a new cable ? Hmm, in a laptop? ;) Details :) Dirty or weak connection point ? If the controller was working well up until this point, it

Re: ntpd just sits there and does nothing

2007-07-22 Thread doug
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Kevin Oberman wrote: Hi, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On Jul 19, 2007, at 10:08, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: As the subject says, on my 6-stable systems ntpd just sits there and does nothing. The logs only mention when the daemon gets started or shut down. It