Re: Fujitsu-siemens machine freezes

2009-01-27 Thread BOG BOG
Hello everybody, yes Sam, you are right, but this bios is a little bit different, there is only a setting regarding SATA: SATA0 legacy. with this option enabled, the kernel detects the hard drive, but is not able to initialize it in order to be partitioned . So i disabled this option and it is

Re: Dealing with Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware.

2009-01-27 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 26.01.2009 at 15:39:36 +0100, Raimo Niskanen raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se wrote: How can I know if I have a suspicious drive? you won't, imho, until Seagate will deliver usable data on this issue. Their statements so far were a long way from being trust-inspiring, imho. My best

Re: OT: Hard Disk Problems (was: Re: Dealing with Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware.)

2009-01-27 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 26.01.2009 at 17:08:51 +, Dieter open...@sopwith.solgatos.com wrote: It is easy to set up a slashdot account. Or you can post as anonymous coward. yes, but I don't want to set up a /. account right now, and posting as AC wouldn't likely solve the problem. that he has

Re: OT: Hard Disk Problems (was: Re: Dealing with Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware.)

2009-01-27 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 26.01.2009 at 17:08:51 +, Dieter open...@sopwith.solgatos.com wrote: Your suggestion of smartmontools is helpful, thank you. thanks - I have just sent an email to them, esp. after seeing that there are people from big name companies involved, who could procure at least some of

PF Table Oddities - Possible bug ?

2009-01-27 Thread a b
Hi all, First post here, so please be gentle.;-) Let's get the environmentals out of the way first : -- OpenBSD 4.4 on i386 architecture -- All errata up to and including 008 (14 Jan 2009) installed Here's what I'm seeing (IP addresses obfuscated to protect the innocent) : (1) ATTEMPT 1

Re: OT: Hard Disk Problems

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Shockley
On 1/26/2009 1:43 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: I have a couple of 750GB ES.2 and now I'm worried ! Why be worried, other than the nuisance of failed hardware? You've got backups, right? Besides, if you have a terabyte of data, chances are you have three undetected single-bit or larger errors

Re: Fujitsu-siemens machine freezes

2009-01-27 Thread Alexey Suslikov
BOG BOG wrote: Hello everybody, yes Sam, you are right, but this bios is a little bit different, there is only a \ setting regarding SATA: SATA0 legacy. with this option enabled, the kernel detects \ the hard drive, but is not able to initialize it in order to be partitioned . So i \

net_ctl: got bad state MASTER from peer

2009-01-27 Thread askthelist
anyone know why this situation would come up in sasyncd and/or help me pinpoint the root cause? seems to correspond with a hiccup in traffic flowing through the vpn. it corrects itself after a few minutes but it has occurred on multiple occasions about the same time of day. Non-VPN traffic still

Re: PF Table Oddities - Possible bug ?

2009-01-27 Thread Bojidara Marinchovska
Hello , cat /etc/pf.conf | grep test table test const persist {10.0.0/24} pfctl -T show -t test 10.0.0.0/24 a b wrote: Hi all, First post here, so please be gentle.;-) Let's get the environmentals out of the way first : -- OpenBSD 4.4 on i386 architecture -- All errata up to and

Re: PF Table Oddities - Possible bug ?

2009-01-27 Thread Bojidara Marinchovska
Hello , cat /etc/pf.conf | grep test table test const persist {10.0.0/24} pfctl -T show -t test 10.0.0.0/24 a b wrote: Hi all, First post here, so please be gentle.;-) Let's get the environmentals out of the way first : -- OpenBSD 4.4 on i386 architecture -- All errata up to and

Correct way to enable aucat -l?

2009-01-27 Thread Joe Gidi
I've been playing with aucat's new sound server capabilities, and it's impressed me enough that I'd like to have it running as a system-wide sound daemon. What is proper way to have it launch at boot? An entry in rc.conf.local like 'aucat_flags=-l'? Thanks, -- Joe Gidi j...@entropicblur.com

Re: Correct way to enable aucat -l?

2009-01-27 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:27:59PM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote: I've been playing with aucat's new sound server capabilities, and it's impressed me enough that I'd like to have it running as a system-wide sound daemon. What is proper way to have it launch at boot? An entry in rc.conf.local like

If you don't understand how to do it properly...

2009-01-27 Thread bofh
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/blowfish_poisoning/ -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity. -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. Securing an environment of Windows platforms

Re: If you don't understand how to do it properly...

2009-01-27 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
bofh wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/blowfish_poisoning/ hack on the linux kernel? ;)

Re: Dealing with Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware.

2009-01-27 Thread Sieve-X
Dieter openbsd at sopwith.solgatos.com writes: Recovering from Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware. Most of you have read about the problems with Seagate's 7200.11 disks. For those of you that haven't, the firmware on many of these drives is buggy, and can brick the drive when

Re: OT: Hard Disk Problems (was: Re: Dealing with Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware.)

2009-01-27 Thread Sieve-X
Nenhum_de_Nos matheus at eternamente.info writes: where you read that from ? I have a couple of 750GB ES.2 and now I'm worried ! http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931NewLang=en thanks, yet OT, but I also heard of new firmwares being worse than old

tale of two nic's and dhclient

2009-01-27 Thread frantisek holop
hi gang, i am at a bit of loss here. i have finally a notebook where both the wireless (iwn0) and normal nic (lii0) get recognized. both are dhcp clients of my home router. consider the following scenario: 1. boot up, lii0 gets a lease 2. i disconnect the wire 3. route -n flush; dhclient iwn0

Re: Correct way to enable aucat -l?

2009-01-27 Thread Joe Gidi
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:27:59PM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote: I've been playing with aucat's new sound server capabilities, and it's impressed me enough that I'd like to have it running as a system-wide sound daemon. What is proper way to have it launch at boot? An entry in rc.conf.local like

Re: tale of two nic's and dhclient

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: hi gang, i am at a bit of loss here. i have finally a notebook where both the wireless (iwn0) and normal nic (lii0) get recognized. both are dhcp clients of my home router. consider the following scenario: 1. boot up, lii0 gets a lease 2. i disconnect the wire

Re: ipv6 neighbor discovery over a wpa wireless link

2009-01-27 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:56:50PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-01-24, Mark Zimmerman markz...@frii.com wrote: Greetings: I am trying to get ipv6 neighbor discovery working over a wpa wireless link between two ral interfaces. I get nothing, and no error messages from rtadvd on

Re: OT: Hard Disk Problems (was: Re: Dealing with Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware.)

2009-01-27 Thread Dieter
Toni writes: If we can find out what area this is (I assume it isn't in the normal space used for user storage) and how to zero it (if not already zero) there is no need to update the firmware. I'd rather say that the (ring) buffer has some external counter, also stored somewhere,

black screen after random time

2009-01-27 Thread Elizarov Andrej
Hi all. I have some strange problem, i'll try to describe it. There is HP notebook with obsd and Linux inside. When i work in obsd screen goes to black, but notebook still work and i can type ^C reboot if i was in terminal. One time i work two hours, another - just 15 minutes before this

OT: Re: If you don't understand how to do it properly...

2009-01-27 Thread Lars Noodén
bofh wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/blowfish_poisoning/ Actually, they knew what the deal was since only an unlicensed chef/restaurant would serve organ meat. Even nicking the organs can be trouble, especially since there is seasonal and individual variation in the strength. A