Re: ath(4) for D-Link G520M on 5.5-R?

2006-06-02 Thread Freddie Cash
to the wireless stack, over an above the improvements in 5.4/5.5. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:14:0:class=0x02 card=0x3a681186 chip=0x0020168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' class= network subclass = ethernet Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: configuring sio1 for serial console ...

2006-06-28 Thread Freddie Cash
console. Connecting via the serial console will display a login screen, same as connecting via the video console, SSH, telnet, etc. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: vfs.usermount seem to have no effect...

2006-06-30 Thread Freddie Cash
/PERPETUAL i386 % Please see the FAQ entry for this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT You're missing the last bit. :) Freddie Cash, LPCI-1 CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73(250) 377-HELP [377

Re: vfs.usermount seem to have no effect...

2006-06-30 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, June 30, 2006 9:35 am, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, June 30, 2006 9:17 am, Evren Yurtesen wrote: I tried to let my user to mount floppy however it doesnt work...see below: %ls -al /dev/fd0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator0, 98 Jun 30 18:22 /dev/fd0 %ls -al

Re: Sound device reported but no devices created

2006-07-30 Thread Freddie Cash
chipset supported by those drivers. The contents of /dev/sndstat will show which chipset was found, and which specific driver is is being used (snd_ess in your case). Putting just that one driver into loader.conf will pull in all the needed dependecies (like sound, snd_sbc, etc). Freddie Cash

Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread Freddie Cash
lost several hundred dollars when the vendor wouldn't take them all back (we got them to trade most of them for 3Ware 9550SX cards). In our experience, these cards are crap, and their tech support isn't much better. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Freddie Cash
the individual threads for each running process are shown. Then look in the 'C' column to see which CPU the threads are running on. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: optimization levels for 6-STABLE build{kernel,world}

2006-09-12 Thread Freddie Cash
anyone will tell you if you run into any compile/runtime errors is to put CFLAGS/COPTFLAGS back to the defaults. :) Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: sed and comma-delimited file

2006-09-19 Thread Freddie Cash
do it in C++, but that seems like overkill. How would I go about doing it with sed or a similar utility? cat file | awk -F, '{ printf %s,%s,%s,%s,%s\n,$1,$2,$3,$4,$5 }' newfile You can probably even remove the cat and just use awk on the file directly. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sed and comma-delimited file

2006-09-21 Thread Freddie Cash
';' newfile [shrug] It uses cut, which I've never used or even heard of??? :) Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: sed and comma-delimited file

2006-09-21 Thread Freddie Cash
';' newfile [shrug] It uses cut, which I've never used or even heard of??? :) Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: ath0 weak connectivity

2006-09-26 Thread Freddie Cash
of these are already in the works. Read through the papers listed at http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ Very interesting reads. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Another whirl with FreeBSD

2006-10-12 Thread Freddie Cash
should all just switch to using x86-64? :) They really like to muddy the naming waters: Pentium-M renamed Core at the same time they announce the Core Architecture, but the Pentium-M is not based on Core. First CPU based on Core is called Core2. Ah, what fun! -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT

Re: atkbd: changing flags at boot time

2005-06-27 Thread Freddie Cash
way to change device flags is to recompile the kernel. 5.x has the handy device.hints file and you can set hints via /boot/loader.conf (preferred as device.hints is overwritten during installworld). -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd

Re: Q: Looking for a recommendation for hardware RAID cards and FreeBSD

2005-07-14 Thread Freddie Cash
6-port SATA cards instead. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4.11 vs. 5.4 stablity

2005-07-26 Thread Freddie Cash
, then maybe we'll look at server performance. :) -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Questions about kernel configuration

2005-09-23 Thread Freddie Cash
..?? Thank you very for your help. If it doesn't appear in the config file, it is not compiled into the kernel. Simple as that. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Freddie Cash
. Odd to see newbies used so predominantly, though. Overall, very impressive. Very professional looking, very clean. Now I have to redo all my bookmarks. :) -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-22 Thread Freddie Cash
that the ^ Not for the reason you think. -STABLE in FreeBSD means API/ABI stability, not necessarily system stability. It's a promise that a binary compiled on 6.0-RELEASE will run on 6.32-RELEASE without needing to recompile it (with very few exceptions). -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Status of FreeBSD 6.2?

2006-12-27 Thread Freddie Cash
. The expected column for everything that follows still lists dates in Oct/Nov timeframe. I think this is what Brett is asking about: and update on the expected timeframe. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: win32-codecs question ...

2007-01-04 Thread Freddie Cash
ports use the OPTIONS framework, and more are being converted over to it all the time. Eventually, hopefully, all ports will use the OPTIONS framework, although there will always be a few items that can't be squeezed into OPTIONS that will require a -DWITH_BLAH or WITH_BLAH=whatever. -- Freddie

Re: 2.4TB disk - MBR and GPT coexist?

2007-01-11 Thread Freddie Cash
9550SX-12 controllers with 12x400 GB disks). Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removing unused core components. (Disabled in make.conf)

2007-01-17 Thread Freddie Cash
to search the archives to find them. There's nothing built-in to FreeBSD that handles this. At least not that I've found / heard of. I could be wrong, though. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

2007-01-21 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, January 21, 2007 8:47 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: Steve Watt wrote: You need to get into your SCSI BIOS (don't know what the key sequence is for 3ware, it's ^A for Adaptec) Alt-F3 funnily enough... It's ALT+3 for all our 3Ware Escalade cards (PATA/SATA). Freddie Cash [EMAIL

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-08 Thread Freddie Cash
, statically linked, not stripped Don't know about the ARECA but the 3Ware cli is a FreeBSD native binary (don't have any FreeBSD boxes with 3Ware cards at the moment to run file on - they're all Debian Etch now), although we used the web GUI for everything (3dm2). -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL

Re: java 1.5 diablo binaries from freebsd foundation

2007-02-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Monday 12 February 2007 01:25 am, Jeffrey Williams wrote: Has anyone tried loading the java 1.5 diablo binaries from the freebsd foundation on 6.2 yet? Working fine on my 6.1-RELEASE laptop that was upgraded to 6.2-RELEASE (without upgrading the JRE package). -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread Freddie Cash
: ifconfig_bridge0=ether 00:00:24:c0:0e:40 addm sis0 stp sis0 addm sis1 stp sis1 up ipv4_addrs_bridge0=146.64.84.1/24 -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Desired behaviour of 'ifconfig -alias' [ath and ifconfig parameter order]

2007-02-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, February 12, 2007 8:01 pm, Sam Leffler wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 11:06 am, John Hay wrote: Also with the atheros driver I had problems in the past with some parameters that did not like to be on a single commandline. At least with the ath(4) driver

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-13 Thread Freddie Cash
/ secondary. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-13 Thread Freddie Cash
happens [insert tongue into cheek] Hmmm, so if the behaviour is undefined, and should not be relied upon, why is everyone arguing to keep it as they rely upon it? :) If no one should be relying upon this undefined behaviour, then why not fix it and make it reliable? -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-13 Thread Freddie Cash
will dhclient be run. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 10:37 am, Oliver Fromme wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: For a set of IPs in the same subnet on the same interface, wouldn't the primary IP be the one with the proper netmask, and all IPs with netmasks of /32 be secondary? That's historic. :-) Old versions

Re: zfs on FreeBSD

2007-03-21 Thread Freddie Cash
://www.sunfreeware.com The other one is http://www.blastwave.org There is a nice script called pkg-add available, that is similar to apt-get. Wouldn't pkgsrc be a better system to use, for someone coming from FreeBSD? -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-02 Thread Freddie Cash
will be 1024x768 w/16 bpp colour. Check the output of vidcontrol -i. You'll see a lot of different modes, some text, some raster/bitmap/VESA/whatever-you-call-it. This has nothing to do with X or any GUI. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-03 Thread Freddie Cash
On Monday 02 April 2007 05:45 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007 06:24, Freddie Cash wrote: 1024x768 is a pretty standard VESA mode used on a lot of people's text consoles. :) On most videocards, MODE_279 will be 1024x768 w/16 bpp colour. Check the output of vidcontrol

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-03 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 10:27 am, JoaoBR wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007 12:18, Freddie Cash wrote: Just a note that the above should read: On Monday 02 April 2007 05:45 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote: As I am not the one who wrote the following line, but Daniel is. :) I don't understand why

Re: 5.x concerns

2005-02-07 Thread Freddie Cash
). Even the USB 2.0 ports work. 5.2-CURRENT had working sleep/resume support, but then it disappeared one day, and I was never able to track down if it was a BIOS update, ACPI update, or driver update that killed it. Not that it bothers me, I prefer to power it off completely anyway. -- Freddie

Re: Save the Demon!

2005-02-09 Thread Freddie Cash
. And, *this contest is not even live yet*. Check the text on http://logo-contest.freebsd.org -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Save the Demon!

2005-02-09 Thread Freddie Cash
the graphics/ and print/ directories of the ports tree online at http://www.freebsd.org/ports and at http://www.freshports.org to see what else is available. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-10 Thread Freddie Cash
is fine for my uses, so I'm not complaining). If this is supported, I'd be more than willing to lose ATAPICAM support to use it. :) -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-27 Thread Freddie Cash
here. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: kernel config: sound device with or without quotes

2005-03-02 Thread Freddie Cash
, soundcards, etc) as modules via loader.conf. Saves time and effort when I decide to swap out NICs and test soundcards and similar. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Distinct base and ports update ?

2005-03-23 Thread Freddie Cash
/upgrades with packages. -- Freddie Cash, CLCP CNCPNetwork Support / Helpdesk School District 73 (250) 377-4357 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: sysinstall new disc layout in 5.4 RELEASE

2005-05-10 Thread Freddie Cash
is the installation CD. This includes about 400 MB of pre-compiled packages that can be installed. CD2 is a LiveCD mainly meant for rescue situations via sysinstall's Fixit feature. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: sysinstall new disc layout in 5.4 RELEASE

2005-05-10 Thread Freddie Cash
On May 10, 2005 09:33 am, you wrote: El Martes, 10 de Mayo de 2005 18:15, Freddie Cash escribió: On May 10, 2005 02:35 am, bazzoola wrote: First, thanks for all the people who took the time and effort to make this happen :) I just finished downloading the images thru torrents. I

Re: kernel build problem

2005-05-11 Thread Freddie Cash
and da devices. Dont' just blindly comment things out. Read the comments in the config file, and in the NOTES files. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-24 Thread Freddie Cash
what to run, as I've never done any benchmarking before. All I can say is that I don't notice any slowdowns or stuttering or anything like that on this system. And it's my do-everything workstation (plugged into a 21 monitor, USB mouse and keyboard when at work). -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-24 Thread Freddie Cash
On May 24, 2005 09:32 am, you wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: The laptop has an ATI IXP chipset, which means the HD is detected and run as a generic UDMA33 device. The kernel is using the 4BSD scheduler with PREEMPTION enabled, all debugging hints disabled, and all the mpsafe sysctls enabled

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-24 Thread Freddie Cash
. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-24 Thread Freddie Cash
On May 24, 2005 12:14 pm, Scott Robbins wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: There are two NOTES files for each CPU architecture. One is for the CPU architecture dependent items and is located at /usr/src/sys/arch/conf/NOTES Just replace arch with the CPU

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?

2005-06-08 Thread Freddie Cash
for the school district, right down to storing accounting and personnel files. Works beautifully, for our needs. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Atheros drirve

2005-06-16 Thread Freddie Cash
any Windows wireless drivers that didn't need the Aegis protocol driver also installed in order to use WPA. :) At least you can configure how the wpa_supplicant works -- I've yet to find a way to tweak the Aegis protocol in Windows. :) -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fsck: broken file system with background check remains broken after bootup

2005-01-04 Thread Freddie Cash
. Read /etc/defaults/rc.conf and put the appropriate fsck options into /etc/rc.conf. What you want to do is disable background fsck, giving you the same behaviour as with 4.x, -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377

Re: [Solved] Re: sshd stops accepting connections

2005-01-11 Thread Freddie Cash
security/openssh-portable. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Old patchset for net80211+atheros for 5.3 still available?

2005-01-13 Thread Freddie Cash
this. I was hoping to write a How-To for this, except I only have the 20040824 patchset (the one before the one I need). Thanks. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLPHelpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Hi all.. Novice user having woes getting Atheros card up in FreeBSD 6.0

2006-01-27 Thread Freddie Cash
NICs to test with, though (all AR5212 at my house). I have instructions for getting the patches, applying the patches, and testing them. I'll send them to you via BSDForums (since that's where they're saved). -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

2006-01-27 Thread Freddie Cash
it in the BIOS. The kernel can't use what isn't advertised as available. :) -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: dhclient in 6.0

2006-02-15 Thread Freddie Cash
and truly wants to do this I have a number of cards I can loan. Completely naive, non-developer question: would it be possible to split the wi(4) driver into two drivers? One to support all the ancient, pre-802.11 cards, and one to support all the nice, new cards? -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL

Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks?

2006-03-07 Thread Freddie Cash
commands to create the mirror, edit /etc/fstab, and exit the installer. Dru Lavigne's OnLamp article about this makes it almost trivial to do. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Freddie Cash
use the twa(4) driver in FreeBSD 5.2+, and the 9550-series cards use the twa(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.0+. I've also heard good things about the Areca RAID controllers, although we have not used any. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable

Re: a place for configuration files

2006-03-22 Thread Freddie Cash
logging onto a Linux station and seeing a thousand entries under /etc, with no clear indication of what is the base OS and what are apps installed on the OS. Everything's a mess, and stored under /etc and /usr. Annoying to say the least. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: shutting off the internal Sendmail Daemom

2006-04-20 Thread Freddie Cash
then. sendmail_enable=NONE has been deprecated and will disappear in a future release. You need to explicitly set each of the sendmail_*_enable variables to NO in /etc/rc.conf. Just grep for sendmail in /etc/defaults/rc.conf for more info. Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can't get if_txp(4) to attach to a 3CR990B-TXM NIC

2007-06-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Friday 08 June 2007 09:59 pm, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:13:37AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: Good morning, I'm having a bit of an issue getting a 3CR990B-TXM NIC detected and usable. Just wondering if anyone knows of any issues with this NIC chipset

Re: Can't get if_txp(4) to attach to a 3CR990B-TXM NIC

2007-06-13 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 09:15 pm, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:20:11AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On Friday 08 June 2007 09:59 pm, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:13:37AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: Good morning, I'm having a bit

Re: Can't get if_txp(4) to attach to a 3CR990B-TXM NIC

2007-06-14 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 08:58 pm, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:01:39AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On Tuesday 12 June 2007 09:15 pm, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:20:11AM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On Friday 08 June 2007 09:59 pm, Pyun

Re: Can't get if_txp(4) to attach to a 3CR990B-TXM NIC

2007-06-14 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thursday 14 June 2007 10:36 am, Freddie Cash wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 08:58 pm, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: Revert previous patch and apply attached patch again. Please give it spin and let me know result. Same error message as below, with the updated firmware downloaded from your site

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-24 Thread Freddie Cash
custom built servers with 4 drive bays arrive with the LEDs either not connected, or connected to different ports on the RAID controller than the drives were on. Very confusing until we started double-checking the connections when the servers arrived. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP

Re: Server motherboard recommendation wanted

2007-12-13 Thread Freddie Cash
by FreeBSD 6.1+ (and Debian Linux 4.0). We use these in file server (Samba and NFS), print server (Samba, CUPS, and lpr), routers/firewalls (IPFW/natd), X terminal servers (thin-client and diskless), VMWare servers, Xen servers, and more. Very stable systems. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP

Re: ZFSKnownProblems - needs revision?

2009-04-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On April 8, 2009 5:30 am Ivan Voras wrote: snip Specifically: * Are the issues on the list still there? * Are there any new issues? * Is somebody running ZFS in production (non-trivial loads) with success? What architecture / RAM / load / applications used? * How is your memory load? (does

Re: Network sysctl tuning [was Re: ZFSKnownProblems - needs revision?]

2009-04-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Antony Mawer fbsd-sta...@mawer.org wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: ... We've also heavily modified /etc/sysctl.conf and upped a bunch of the network-related sysctls.  Doing so increased our SSH throughput from ~30 Mbits/sec across all connections to over 90 Mbits

Re: current zfs tuning in RELENG_7 (AMD64) suggestions ?

2009-05-01 Thread Freddie Cash
as that's the current max) arc_max should be half of kmem_max Using those, we've been able to run our ZFS boxes without any kmem panics, even when doing rsync backups for 102 remote servers every night to a single box. Finding those values was fun. :( -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: current zfs tuning in RELENG_7 (AMD64) suggestions ?

2009-05-02 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Alan Cox alan.l@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Louis Kowolowski lou...@cryptomonkeys.org wrote: On May 1, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Pete French wrote: ... The tuning isn't

Re: Keeping Updated

2009-05-06 Thread Freddie Cash
. If the boot using /boot/newkernel fails, a simple reboot will bring it back up with /boot/kernel (the old, working kernel). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: ZFS MFC heads up

2009-05-21 Thread Freddie Cash
want to list with zfs list. By default, it only shows filesystems. You even have to use -t if you want to list volumes. Reading up on the Solaris docs for ZFS is quite enlightening. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

A very big Thank You for the inclusion of ZFS

2009-05-26 Thread Freddie Cash
-L 64 -r 4k -s 40g -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -i 8 -+p 70 -C (350 MBytes/sec writes) iozone -M -e -+u -T -t 128 -r 128k -s 4g -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -i 8 -+p 70 -C (400 MBytes/sec write) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-31 Thread Freddie Cash
. That's what we do as well, but with /usr/local on ZFS, leaving just / and /usr on UFS. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-14 Thread Freddie Cash
-on-root facilities, I'd look into getting a couple of CompactFlash or USB sticks to use for the gmirror for / and /usr (put the rest on ZFS). Then you can dedicate the entirety of all 5 drives to ZFS. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-14 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Emil Mikulic emiku...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:16:52PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: I don't know for sure if it's the same on FreeBSD, but on Solaris, ZFS will disable the onboard disk cache if the vdevs are not whole disks. pjd@ has

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-15 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:47 AM, George Hartzell hartz...@alerce.comwrote: Freddie Cash writes: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: I just wanted to have an extra pair (or a dozen) of eyes look this configuration over before I commit

Re: ZFS performance on 7.2-release/amd64 low compared to UFS2 + SoftUpdates

2009-06-18 Thread Freddie Cash
desktop), it's worked well. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: kernel wants the wrong driver for my NIC

2009-06-19 Thread Freddie Cash
just the if_rl module. One could probably also write a hints line in /boot/loader.conf to tell the vr driver to ignore that specific PCI slot or whatnot, although I've never actually done that. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: ZFS and df weirdness

2009-07-04 Thread Freddie Cash
? Reserved space is not listed in the general pool. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: ZFS: drive replacement performance

2009-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
- - 15 62 1022K 80.1K - - - - - - - That definitely doesn't look right. It should be showing the device name there in the replacing section. What's the exact zpool replace command that you used? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: ZFS: drive replacement performance

2009-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Mahlon E. Smith mah...@martini.nu wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009, Freddie Cash wrote: This is why we've started using glabel(8) to label our drives, and then add the labels to the pool: # zpool create store raidz1 label/disk01 label/disk02 label/disk03

Re: ZFS - thanks

2009-07-11 Thread Freddie Cash
to never use more than 8 or 9 drives in any single vdev. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: zfs on gmirror slice

2009-09-01 Thread Freddie Cash
. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: zfs on gmirror slice

2009-09-01 Thread Freddie Cash
to and use s1 on both drives for the gmirror RAID1; and use s2 on both drives for a ZFS RAID1. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: zfs on gmirror slice

2009-09-02 Thread Freddie Cash
what happens. ;) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: zfs won't automount

2009-09-03 Thread Freddie Cash
get all | grep mountpoint. When you zfs set the mountpoint, the No need for the grep command, just zfs get mountpoint is enough. That will show just the mounpoint property for all the filesystems, snapshots, and volumes. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: FreeBSD Status Reports April - September, 2009

2009-10-13 Thread Freddie Cash
as experimental in 7.x and only remove that warning in 8.x. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: Regarding hw.ata.wc=1......

2001-07-25 Thread Freddie Cash
On July 24, 2001 09:08 am, you wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:53:02AM -0700, Mike Hoskins wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jason Andresen wrote: A sysinstall prompt would be nice though. An even nicer option would be a little menu on the diskLabel part of the install that asks what

Re: Telnet

2001-08-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On August 8, 2001 01:27 pm, you wrote: Hello Wolfgang Thanks for you tip. Yes, on my personal machines I will use putty. But a lot of my time I work on machines at my clients so I can't install everytime putty. So, run it off floppy. It fits nicely on a floppy. Unfortunately, it does

FreeBSD 6.3 + Xen 3.1 HVM: Success!

2008-02-29 Thread Freddie Cash
' class = network subclass = ethernet -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD 6.3 + Xen 3.1 + HVM: Success!

2008-02-29 Thread Freddie Cash
= network subclass = ethernet -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FreeBSD 7.0 + Xen 3.1 + HVM: Success!

2008-02-29 Thread Freddie Cash
/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-03-22 Thread Freddie Cash
it if it is unchanged. Something that is part of the make system. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-03-23 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Garrett Wollman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Freddie Cash writes: Oh, gods, please, no! That is one of the things I absolutely hate about Debian (and its derivatives). There are some packages on Debian where they use separate

Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

2008-03-23 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Michael Gratton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 20:59 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Anders Nordby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: conf.d (custom configuration) sites-available (virtualhost configuration

Re: s/stable/broken/g

2008-03-26 Thread Freddie Cash
to Y.z simple and mostly fool-proof. But there are no guarantees when going from X.x to Y.z. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Status of ZFS in -stable?

2008-05-20 Thread Freddie Cash
filesystem, everything is corrupted. -- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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