Re: Cheap USB Analog Tuner

2007-04-19 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/19/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A reminder to all that NTSC OTA (analog TV broadcasts over-the-air) is set to self-destruct in the next couple of years. Yeah, but haven't they been pushing the date off for more than a year per year so far? ~shrug~ My crystal ball is br

Re: Cheap USB Analog Tuner

2007-04-19 Thread Paul Lussier
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A reminder to all that NTSC OTA (analog TV broadcasts over-the-air) > is set to self-destruct in the next couple of years. Yeah, but haven't they been pushing the date off for more than a year per year so far? -- Seeya, Paul __

Re: Dell 690 only seeing 3 GB RAM (was: slow last 128MB...)

2007-04-19 Thread mike ledoux
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On 4/19/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We have a number of Dell Precision 690 boxes with 4 1Gb DIMMs > >installed but our RHAT WS3 kernel ... > > RHEL 3 is pretty old. I think it might be old enough that you need >

Re: Dell 690 only seeing 3 GB RAM (was: slow last 128MB...)

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Johnson
Ben Scott writes: > I'm not sure if disabling MTRR is a good idea or not. It may be > important for other reasons, and sometimes disabling something that is > causing a problem just leads to bigger problems down the road. > Perhaps Dave or someone else who understands it better can comment on >

Re: Dell 690 only seeing 3 GB RAM (was: slow last 128MB...)

2007-04-19 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/19/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm betting it was disabling the MTRR that did it, not the PAE stuff... Dave Johnson points out that 1 GiB of your RAM exists from 4 to 5 GiB on the physical address bus. That would imply you do need PAE. I've learned in other contexts

Re: Dell 690 only seeing 3 GB RAM (was: slow last 128MB...)

2007-04-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
>> we can now see all 4Gb. I'm betting it was disabling the MTRR >> that did it, not the PAE stuff... > > I have a feeling it was the PAE stuff. Without PAE, the CPU can > only see the 4Gb. and the BIOS and PCI devices (especially ones > that are only 32-bit aware) are all in the memory betwee

Re: slow last 128MB of RAM in a 2GB system?

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Johnson
Michael ODonnell writes: > > BIOS-e820: 0010 - bfe0ac00 (usable) > > BIOS-e820: bfe0ac00 - bfe0cc00 (ACPI NVS) > > BIOS-e820: bfe0ec00 - bfe5cc00 (reserved) > > BIOS-e820: bfe5cc00 - bfe5ec00 (ACPI data) > > BIOS-e820: 000

Re: Dell 690 only seeing 3 GB RAM (was: slow last 128MB...)

2007-04-19 Thread Chris
On 4/19/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RHEL 3 is pretty old. I think it might be old enough that you need > to install a separate, special kernel package for systems which > "large memories". I'm building a kernel with the MTRR support disabled and, just for fun, I've also

Re: Dell 690 only seeing 3 GB RAM (was: slow last 128MB...)

2007-04-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
> RHEL 3 is pretty old. I think it might be old enough that you need > to install a separate, special kernel package for systems which > "large memories". I'm building a kernel with the MTRR support disabled and, just for fun, I've also turned on PAE even tho I should theoretically not need it

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG/Nashua - 19 Apr - Machine virtualization on Linux (Xen)

2007-04-19 Thread Bob King
I will be there, and will be bringing a guest. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Dell 690 only seeing 3 GB RAM (was: slow last 128MB...)

2007-04-19 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/19/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have a number of Dell Precision 690 boxes with 4 1Gb DIMMs installed but our RHAT WS3 kernel ... RHEL 3 is pretty old. I think it might be old enough that you need to install a separate, special kernel package for systems which "large

Re: slow last 128MB of RAM in a 2GB system?

2007-04-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
As long as this thread involves MTRR and e820 dumps... We have a number of Dell Precision 690 boxes with 4 1Gb DIMMs installed but our RHAT WS3 kernel is only willing to acknowledge 3Gb and I'm trying to figure out why. We have a number of these machines so I claim that it's not just one system

Re: auto-rebuild RAID mirrors

2007-04-19 Thread Tom Buskey
On 4/19/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:35, Thomas Charron wrote: > You're right, I'm > suprised there isn't more on this online. It's a GREAT idea to mirror > a local drive over an external mass storage drive. It's worth noting that I only usually achie

Re: auto-rebuild RAID mirrors

2007-04-19 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 18, 2007, at 10:35, Thomas Charron wrote: Hrm, apperently, this is all gone in 2.6, sorry for pointing the wrong way. No problem. I'll see if I can find some discussion about its progress and removal, that may be enlightening. The entire md.c was split up into it's own director

Re: auto-rebuild RAID mirrors

2007-04-19 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 18, 2007, at 11:12, Derek Atkins wrote: I used to use the attached script. Note that it USED to work, but I haven't tested it on recent systems. I originally wrote it on RHL9, and I think I updated it for FC1, but I dont think I've tested it more recently than that, so YMMV. Cool, loo