Broadcom BCM5805 crypto accelerator
Cleaning out my firewall box (Atom 330 based) before upgrading, and I noticed it had a BCM5805 crypto accelerator card installed. Is there any reason to keep this these days (even an an entropy source for random(4)), or should I just recycle it as a door stop? Thanks.
Re: Group access issue
Not OpenBSD related, but this can be achieved with standard Unix permissions. From memory you'll need something like: Two groups, one for read-only (R), the other for write access (W). Anyone in the latter group should also be in the former. Then create the following directory structure: foo (group = R, owner = nobody, permissions = 0050) foo/bar (group = W, owner = nobody, permissions = 2075) The directory foo/ acts as a gate, only members of R can see below. The foo/bar directory holds your files, readable by anyone (except this is restricted to the group R by foo/), writable by members of W. The setgid bit ensures new files are writable by other members of W. On 7 January 2014 13:57, Jon S jonsjost...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I have a situation where I would like to assign one group of people rights to read a file and a different group of people the right to read and write the same file (there are actually many files). A different way to describe it would be: I would like a file to belong to two groups, one with RW-permissions and one with R--permissions. The files are accessed using ssh. I run OpenBSD 4.9. Installing new software and/or upgrading to latest OpenBSD would be acceptable partial solutions. Any hints or ideas on how I can accomplish this? -- Jon Sjöstedt jonsjost...@hotmail.com
Re: Small USB wifi adapter
On 23 April 2012 12:35, Laurence Rochfort laurence.rochf...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My laptop's integrated wifi adapter is not supported by OpenBSD. Can anybody suggest a USB adapter that doesn't stick out of the port very far? Ideally I'd like one that protrudes less than a centimeter. B There are several on amazon but technical details are scarce. Edimax EW-7811Un http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=347pl1_id=1pl2_id=44 http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Edimax_EW-7811Un
Re: Opteron 250 Overheating
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 15:53, Jeff Ross jr...@openvistas.net wrote: Opterons are new to me. B Have I already damaged the CPU? B I can get an couple of active CPU heatsinks to replace the passive ones but if that chip is already damaged I'd rather lose some more time and return the motherboard while I still can. Very unlikely to have damaged the CPU; Opterons (and almost all modern CPUs) have thermal protection circuity to prevent this. -- ach
Re: Comparing large amounts of files
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 23:24, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: B I am wondering if there is a port or otherwise available code which is good at comparing large numbers of files in an arbitrary number of directories? B I always try avoid wheel re-creation when possible. B I'm trying to help some- one with large piles of data, most of which is identical across N directories. B Most. B Its the 'across dirs' part that involves the effort, hence my avoidance of thinking on it if I can help it. ;-) sysutils/fdupes -- ach
Re: chown
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 08:52, Steve fivering...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I am trying to use chown -R to selectively change permissions on files. A series of files are contained in many folders under the root data folder. No files are stored in the data folder itself. Running chown -R user:group /data/*.dat run from /data generates an error indicating no files match. If I move a .dat file into /data the ownership changes in that folder but not those below. chown -R user:group /data/* works as expected Is there a way to selectively change files recursively ? Use find to select the files and pipe the output to xargs: find . -name ... -print0 | xargs -0 -- chown ... -- ach
Re: Can one dd to /dev/rwd0c?
2008/9/21 Sunnz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is running off a OpenBSD 4.3 CD, there are no intention to actually destroy the hard disk in any way, just erasing the data off the hard disk so that it can be reused, re-sold, whatever. The data are not some military top secret, but it is interesting to know of what can be done in a home/small office environment when it comes to erasing the hard drive. When wiping drives for resale I tend to use 'badblocks -s -v -w' from a Knoppix cdrom. This is available under OpenBSD, (from ports, e2fsprogs), but not from the install CD. Alternatively, for modern drives, 'man atactl' and look at the secerase command. -- ach
Re: 3.4-release random freeze
2008/8/1 Paul M [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all I'm attempting to install 4.3-release on an old compac but I'm getting random freezes shortly after boot. The most it has stayed up is about 1/2 hour, usually it'll die within a few minutes, sometimes it'll die during boot - once it even failed during the install process. The only way to recover is to kill the power. I'm at a loss, there is nothing in the logs, no messages, I've memtested the ram, swapped out the ram, surface scanned the disk, swapped out the disk, swapped out the nic, run without a nic, disabled acpi ... I cant think of anything else to try. Try a different PSU. -- ach
Re: Zsh ctrl+a / ctrl+e
On 29/01/2008, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I use zsh on my OpenBSD boxes. About a week ago ctrl+a and ctrl+e stopped working in zsh. These combos should skip to the begin and end of the line. These functions seem to work in zsh on our solaris boxes. I have just been chatting to another user who uses zsh and he has the same problem. Has it become broken? Have you changed the default environment for users? zsh uses the value of variables like EDITOR to determine which key-mappings to default to. -- ach
Re: Seg fault by cc1 on AMD-K6-2
On 09/12/2007, Mats Erik Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, I have OpenBSD 4.2 running on this machine using AMD-K6-2/350 on an AT-mainboard with VIA chipset VT82C598 and VT82C586B. (Well, both AT and ATX in fact.) I have not detected any trouble until I patched libssl according to the official suggestion, but already when performing make depend, the execution aborts prematurely and reports a segmentation fault in cc1 that gnu.org ought to know about. The very same thing happened three times with reboots inbetween and even rearranged SDRAM just in case. Segmentation faults during compilation is often a symptom of faulty memory. (Old faq on this issue available at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/) Grab a copy of memtest86+, and test the memory throughly. :) -- ach
Re: OT: mail retrieval software
On 31/07/07, poncenby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grateful if anyone could recommend a mail retrieval program which does not require a local SMTP service like fetchmail does. Try 'getmail'. -- ach
Re: OBSD 4.1 drops to ddb with cdd0: error 22 on component 0 (and 1 (mirror))
On 6/14/07, Marius Hooge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I issued trace and ps and... don't have a clue what to do now. I considered overheating of my CDD-Mirror, but smartctl reports below 40 degrees C. Have you considered PSU or other hardware failure? -- ach
Re: via systems?
On 5/11/07, Todd T. Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking and probably just blind but haven't found any complete systems using the via c7 esther chipset. Specifically I'm looking for rsa accelleration. Via EPIA EN15000? -- ach
Re: Loading a Second Kernel
On 4/17/07, Jon Steel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to find a way to do a sort of very soft reboot. For example I want to boot up the computer into a kernel on one drive, and then after saying reboot, the computer loads up a kernel from a second drive. This sounds very similar to the Linux kexec api. Whether it actually is, and whether this can be ported to OpenBSD is left as an exercise. :) http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kexec.html -- ach
Re: Back again with funny network interfaces
On 4/20/07, Manuel Ravasio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have something that looks like a couple of pcmcia cards, which fit into two pcmcia slots... I don't have a tester at home, so I can't check voltages. PCMCIA and CardBus cards are physically (very slightly) different: http://www.pcmcia.org/faq.htm#cardbuscard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardbus#CardBus -- ach
Re: Finding a ral(4) cardbus card
On 4/13/07, Luke Eckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a hard time finding a ral(4) cardbus card for my laptop. I recently bought a Hawking Tech HWC54G - which happens to be acx(4) - thinking I was buying a Hawking Tech HWC54GR (which is listed as supported by ral(4)). Try the Edimax EW-7108PCg (Ralink Rt2500 chipset). Scan (www.scan.co.uk) and Newegg are selling them. -- ach
Re: interface order with multiple cards of same type
My question is. I have OBSD 4.0 running on an Asus p3b-F with 6 pci slots that i'm wanting to use as a router/firewall. I have 5 fxp interfaces in the machine inserted starting from the bottom pci slot up. I have a very similar setup here at home - however I deliberately used a different make/model of card for the external interface than the internal interfaces so that I could distinguish them: external: xl0 internal: rl0, rl1, rl2 wireless: ral0 PCI cards are detected in the order they appear in the bus, which has absolutely no relationship to their physical positions. -- ach
Re: Install question: FreeBSD installed, no CD drive
On 1/17/07, Mark Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop with FreeBSD and no CD drive. I'd like to convert to OpenBSD. I have the 4.0 CD. What is the easiest path (other than buying a CD drive ;)? dd if=floppy40.fs of=/dev/wd0c sync; sync; sync -- ach
Re: Where to buy SysKonnect NICs in the UK ?
On 1/2/07, Gordon Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for some NICs for some OBSD firewalls. After scanning the archives (and lurking on the list) SysKonnect appear to be a well regarded and supported brand of NIC in the OpenBSD arena. But I can't seem to find any resellers in the UK. Does anyone know of any suppliers in the UK for these cards ? http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/BELNIC10 -- ach
Re: Home networking for an amateur
Erik, From dhcp.conf: subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 Wouldn't netmask 255.255.0.0 work better? -- ach
Re: Moving a 100GB directory tree with lots of hardlinks
On 12/15/06, Andreas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a wild guess ... Do you tried rsync? (Although I don't know how rsync deals with _hard_ links). rsync --archive --hard-links ... -- ach
Re: % stdout?
On 11/9/06, Cassio B. Caporal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have problems to print '%' in stdout... Suppose code below: Use: fprintf(stdout, %s, foo); This is mentioned in the man page for fprintf. -- ach
Re: tar question
On 10/17/06, Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can I exclude files or directories when using tar? I found that gnu tar uses --exclude, but how can I do this in openbsd?! Use find (/usr/bin/find) to select the files you require, and pipe the output to tar. -- ach
Re: [/tmp partition secure]
On 8/31/06, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what secure mode means, but a ramdisk (mount_mfs(8)) would be difficult to get data from, and pretty quick; an encrypted vnd interface (see vnconfig(8)) would also be pretty secure. Once you turn off the computer, of course... No an issue, since /tmp is usually cleared on reboot anyway. See /etc/rc for details. -- ach
/tmp partition secure
On 8/31/06, Alexander Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Hayward wrote: On 8/31/06, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what secure mode means, but a ramdisk (mount_mfs(8)) would be difficult to get data from, and pretty quick; an encrypted vnd interface (see vnconfig(8)) would also be pretty secure. Once you turn off the computer, of course... No an issue, since /tmp is usually cleared on reboot anyway. See /etc/rc for details. Well, then just boot single-user mode and you're toast (unless using one of the proposed solutions). No. I meant that losing the data in /tmp after a reboot shouldn't be considered a problem with this method (using mfs), since you would normally lose the data in /tmp anyway. -- ach
Re: syncing data between workstations and laptop
On 8/29/06, Steffen Wendzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently own 3 home directories. one on each of my workstations and one on my laptop but I want to have the same data in all 3 folders. Look for rsync and/or unison. -- ach
Re: Two file eadem on the same directory
On 7/16/06, Gustavo Rios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He folks, i am facing this scenario i could never imagine to be possible (I am serious, ok). Look the entry for file q. Does anybody here have an ideia about what is going on? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ touch q [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ touch q [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ls -l total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 ach wheel0 Jul 16 21:24 q -rw-r--r-- 1 ach wheel0 Jul 16 21:25 q -- ach This message may contain mild peril.
Re: Wireless Bridge...
On 7/4/06, Thomas BC6rnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bridging doesn't work with wireless lan. Yes it does. However the wireless adapter needs to be in hostap mode. -- ach
Re: Ntop, Nw. Board Mfg, and CARP
I'm playing w/ ntop, and pressing 'n' repeatedly changes the display format of the host. One selection is network board manufacturer, based on MAC allocation I'm guessing. My CARP interface says the mfg is U.S. Department of Defense. Is this normal? Possibly. You should be able to check for yourself: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml -- ach
Re: NFS Slow writes
On 6/15/06, Bob Bostwick (Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to setup an NFS share, and am getting horrible write performance. Reads are fast as can be expected. I've searched the archives and found several threads on the subject, but no resolutions. I've tried all possible fstab options (that I know of) but none really help with write. I'm currently using ip.addr:/nfs /test/dir nfs rw,nodev,nosuid,tcp,intr,-r=32768,-w=32768 0 0 I've found (after various tests) with with an OpenBSD (3.8) server and Linux client, that I get the best performance with: rw,noauto,soft,tcp,rsize=2048,wsize=2048 This gives out 8MB/s for both read and write with my hardware. YMMV, but one thing I did notice is that large rsize/wsize didn't necessarily translate to better performance. -- ach
Re: Wireless card use
On 6/7/06, Gaby vanhegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reviews seem to rate them, it's listed as supported hardware and it's less than #30. Any reason I shouldn't get one of these to go with a 3.9 box? Edimax EW-7128G http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=152539 -- ach
Re: No-name NICs
On 6/6/06, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:42, Martin Schrvder wrote: Hi, how likely is a no-name 100MBit NIC to just work with 3.9 stable? Very, in my experience, They almost always use a Realtek 8139 chipset - rl(4). -- ach
Re: USB -- Ethernet NIC
On 5/23/06, Michael Lechtermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since I still got trouble (first slow than stops working) with 2 D-Link DUB E-100 devices using axe I wonder if anyone of you is using any other USB-Ethernet NICs that work and are getting full 100MBit speed with USB2.0? Netgear FA120, under OpenBSD 3.7 and later. http://www.netgear.com/products/details/FA120.php I'll post a dmesg later tonight. -- ach
Re: b/g wifi card on wi list?
On 5/18/06, Peter Bako [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking through the list of wireless PCMCIA cards known to be supported from the man page for wi(4), but it appears that all of those are just 802.11b cards. I'd prefer to get one that also supports g mode Any recommendations? Edimax EW-7108PCg (based on the Ralink RT2500 reference design). (or did you really mean PCMCIA instead of Cardbus?) -- ach
Edimax EN-9230TX-32
Has anyone had any experiences with the Edimax EN-9230TX-32 gigabit network adapter? According to the technical documents at: http://www.edimax.com.tw/download/datasheet/EN-9230TX-32.pdf It uses a Realtek 8169S chipset which is supported by the re(4) driver, however this card isn't mentioned on either the manual page or the OpenBSD i386 hardware page. If there are no negative comments I'll probably buy one (they're only 10 GBP or so) and report back. -- ach
Re: PCIe graphic card with dual dvi output, anyone?
On 5/4/06, Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if someone uses a PCIe graphic card with dual dvi output under x11 on Openbsd 3.9 or current? I'm currently using an ATI FireMV 2200 card (dual DVI) PCI card, but PCIe versions are also available. http://www.ati.com/products/firemvseries/specs.html -- ach
Re: RAIDframe question
On 2/1/06, Peter Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why was there a crash, I would of thought that the system should run after a disk failure. And even more to my surprise, about two days of my work disappeared. I believe, the disk drive died about 2 days before the crash. I also believe that RAIDframe did not handle the disk drive's failure correctly and as a result all file writes to the failed drive queued up in memory, when memory ran out the system crashed. What mount options are/were you using? -- ach
Re: RAIDframe question
On 2/1/06, Greg Oster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Fraser writes: and as a result all file writes to the failed drive queued up in memory, I've never seen that behaviour... I find it hard to believe that you'd be able to queue up 2 days worth of writes without a) any reads being done or b) not noticing that the filesystem was completely unresponsive when a write of associated meta-data never returned... (on the first write of meta-data that didn't return, pretty much all IO to that filesystem should grind to a halt. Sorry.. I'm not buying the it queued up things for two days... ) I've seem similar on a machine with a filesystem on a raid-1 partition and mounted with softdeps enabled. From what I remember the scenario was something like: * copied 10Gb or so of data to new raid-1 filesystem * system then left idle for 30mins or so * being an idiot, pulled the wrong plug out of the wall * upon reboot, and after raid resync and fsck, most of the copied data was no longer there -- ach
Re: APIC
On 1/3/06, martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides doing a dmesg | grep irq, is there another way at seeing the assigned interrupts. # vmstat -i -- ach
Re: Can install 3.8, but not boot 3.8 (3.7- worked fine)
On 11/17/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gordon Ross wrote: We've got several VIA based micro ATX systems here. We've been using OpenBSD on them for years now, and never had any problems. Today, I installed 3.8 (from the official CDs) and this went fine. I then rebooted the system off of the HD, and the boot started, but stopped at sysbeep0 at pcppi0 I repeated the install on an identical box and got exactly the same problem. Below is a dmesg from one of these machines running 3.7 Suggestions as to where I should go from here ? This pretty much means that there is something in the GENERIC kernel that is NOT in the install kernel that is causing problems on this machine. If you can find this device and disable it through ukc, you should be in business. totally wild guess: try disabling ahc. another totally wild guess: try disabling auvia. -- ach
Ralink 802.11g PCI wireless cards
In case anyone from .uk is interested, www.scan.co.uk are currently selling a couple of Ralink RT2560 based 802.11g wireless cards (supported under OpenBSD by ral(4)): Edimax EW-7128G 54Mbps Wireless PCI Card (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=152539) Gigabyte GN WPKG - Wireless PCI Card Ralink 64/128Web Roaming (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=219714) The Edimax card is slightly cheaper and has a remote antenna with about a metre of lead, but otherwise they're identical. :) ach -- This message may contain mild peril.
Re: IDE disk problems
On 10/4/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You only mentioned the drives. BTW: There are companies which sell too long IDE drive cables. If you want to go fast, you gotta keep 'em short, and that won't work in many boxes. While we're on the subject of IDE cables: * for the modern 80way cables the length limit is 45cm (18 inches) * avoid the 'round' cables * a single drive on a channel should be on the end connector, not the middle connector (guess who spent 3 days last month tracking down a problem related to a bad cable) -- ach
Re: argus calloc failure on 3.7
On 8/27/05, Russell Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems running argus www.qosient.com on 3.7. The server runs for a variable amount of time (ususlly 1 - 2 hours) and then dies when a calloc for 128 bytes fails. We are fairly sure that this is not because of real memory exhustion (watching with top does not show any obvious leakying behaviour) so that points to possible bad frees or some other issue. Argus runs happily on other BSDs (and other flavous of UNIX/Linux) and people have used it on older OBSD versions. What user is argus running as? Have you hit a ulimit? -- ach
Re: backup filesystem
On 8/18/05, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I shall be transporting a hard disk between two sites for backup purposes. The backup shall be on a RAID-1 mirror in an openbsd server. The disk will primarily be used in a sun workstation running solaris. As others have pointed out, use a tarball on a vfat filesystem. You might want to doublecheck the capabilities of the various tar utilties, and perhaps use gtar (GNU Tar) on both ends. Otherwise, OpenBSD has r/w support for ext2, and I believe there's a module for Solaris to support ext2. Third alternative would be to use a small NAS device or PC (miniitx/laptop) instead of a vanilla harddrive and use a network filesystem to r/w the backup. -- ach
Re: GMT / BST Question
i've noticed my obsd box hasn't altered it's time (BST). I'm linked using: ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime Try /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB instead. -- ach
Re: The Care and Feeding of OpenBSD
On 8/16/05, Will H. Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for comments on the care and feeding of OpenBSD servers. Essentially and best practices document for maintaining OpenBSD production servers. Yes, best is a stupid way to describe anything, but I'm hoping that there is some consensus in the community. 0. Whenever you make a change to the system, write it what you did, and *why*. :) -- ach
Re: Via EPIA - Std. ATX Case - Doe sit match?
Sebastian, On 8/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just a little question to those who've already a VIA Epia Board. THe MINI-ITX-Factor looks very small so I asked myself if I would be able to include the board in anormal ATX-Case. Because I need the PCI-Slot (Wlan-GW) I wont buy such a board without being sure that I can put it in the case. www.via.com.tw/en/downloads/whitepapers/initiatives/spearhead/ini_mini-itx.pdf Yes, in particular the relationship between the backplane and the pci slot is the same. However you will need to check that your case has the correct holes for the motherboard standoffs. You should be able to pull the layout of those from the photos in the above document. It may be worth looking at a dedicated mini-itx case instead. Possible suppliers: www.itx-warehouse.co.uk www.mini-itx.com www.linitx.co.uk -- ach
Re: setting DST
Chris wrote: I use GMT for the system clock for all my openbsd boxes. I searched to find how I can ajust DST without changing to London time for example and I didnt found any answer. date -d dst? I m very confused or very stupid I just want a way to keep GMT but to have the time automaticly displayed corect every sommer in GMT # man date snip TZ The timezone to use when displaying dates. See environ(7) for more information. If this variable is not set, the timezone is determined based on /etc/localtime, which the administrator ad- justs using the -l option of zic(8). snip # zic -l GB Which I believe is what you're asking for. But I could be wrong. :) -- ach
Re: lowering the securelevel?
On 8/10/05, Matt Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:00:24PM -0700, Reid Nichol wrote: In rc.securelevel there is: securelevel=1 man securelevel http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/xmbmon/README-OpenBSD_chips.html :) -- ach
Re: sniffer
On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task. I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to testing them to see if they will do the job I need. Can anyone recommend other tools that will do the work? tcpdump -s 65535 This patch might also be useful: http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2000/msg00441.html :) -- ach
Re: 4port Realtek nic
More evidence - the description claims it uses the RTL8139D and RTL8305SB chipsets. The RTL8139D chipset is obviously the NIC, the RTL8305B chipset is a five port switch: http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=18 In the end my couriousity won and I acquired one of these. Works out of the box, appears as a single NIC to OpenBSD: rl0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 Realtek 8139 rev 0x10: irq 10 address 00:e0:4c:09:1f:50 rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal phy -- ach
Re: SCSI and disk geometry
At this point...I'm suspicious you found a nasty bug in the SCSI driver for that card, but a (set??) of really bad cables might explain it, too. Yes, I have seen piles of parts were every single one was bad in a similar way... Could also be a very bad jumper option on the drives, too. Check (and double check) the cables, jumpers, scsi ids and termination. sd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: LSILOGIC, 1030 IM, 1000 SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 34715MB, 34715 cyl, 16 head, 128 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 71096320 sec total Can the target id of the adaptor be modified? (Bringing in a fresh suppy of goats may also help). -- ach
Re: 4port Realtek nic
On 6/16/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple similarly marketed, similarly described cards (although, with a cheap dc(4) chip), and while they are VERY useful, they are not four-port NICs. What it actually is is a single port NIC with a four port switch. I'm fairly sure this is the exact same thing. Evidence: the picture seems to show two moderately small chips, most quad-port NICs have five chips -- four NICs and a PCI-PCI bridge. COULD it be a PCI-PCI bridge and a quad-port NIC chip? Perhaps, but I'm not aware of anyone putting four NICs on one chip. More evidence - the description claims it uses the RTL8139D and RTL8305SB chipsets. The RTL8139D chipset is obviously the NIC, the RTL8305B chipset is a five port switch: http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=18 -- ach
Re: howto clean disks ?
Ed White wrote: Hi, I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this automagically ? badblocks -s -v -w device I usually keep a Knoppix CD around for this purpose, but its also available in the e2fsprogs port. -- ach
