Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-07 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/7 Richard Toohey richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz On 7/11/2009, at 10:25 AM, Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: It looks like the problem has nothing to do with SSD. Thanks for hints about this issue. I'll try to send the complete failure report within a few days, it end up as a kernel panic

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-06 Thread William Graeber
2009/11/4 philippe aubry philippe.aub...@gmail.com: I'm using a 32 GB SSD drive from approximatly one year with openBSD 4.4 into a SOEKRIS and no troubles with that, the great think is NO NOISE, NO HEAT. I used the soekris as firewall and the uptime is approximatly 178 days. I've also been

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/4 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Robert
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:08:48 +0100 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/4 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/4 K K kka...@gmail.com 2009/11/4 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk becomes like

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/4 Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com 2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/5 Robert rob...@openbsd.pap.st On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:08:48 +0100 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/4 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: Hello, Is there any particular problem with

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: This seems predicated on the firmware being smart enough to swap out bad sectors for good setors that are addressable but not used in practice.

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: Still, the point I was trying to make - that leaving part of your disk unpartitioned doesn't really help - stands, no? Depends. Partitioning or not partitioning is unlikely to make a difference, as it's writes

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Robert
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:32:59 +0100 Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: This seems predicated on the firmware being smart enough to

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Aaron Mason
2009/11/6 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: 2009/11/4 Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com 2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread David Zeillinger
Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: Still, the point I was trying to make - that leaving part of your disk unpartitioned doesn't really help - stands, no? Depends. Partitioning or not partitioning is unlikely to make a

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread SJP Lists
2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I've been using flash based SSD's in OpenBSD systems for 6 or 7 years, starting with small CF in firewalls and now SATA SSD's in desktops and laptops. Never had a

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread richardtoohey
Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: [cut] The error actually appears wjile installing xfont46.tgz which is very very slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . errors : many atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout one d0(ahci0:3:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
2009/11/6 richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: [cut] The error actually appears wjile installing xfont46.tgz which is very very slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . errors : many atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout one

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I've been using flash based SSD's in OpenBSD systems for 6 or 7 years, starting with small CF in firewalls and now SATA SSD's in desktops and laptops.

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/6 richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: [cut] The error actually appears wjile installing xfont46.tgz which is very very slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . errors : many atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout one

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/6 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com 2009/11/6 richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: [cut] The error actually appears while installing xfont46.tgz which is very very slow. It is normal speed util that particular file .

Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread Jean-François SIMON
Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk becomes like overloaded and unavailable to continue the installing process of 4.6. Regards

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread STeve Andre'
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk becomes like overloaded and unavailable to

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread Roger Schreiter
Jean-Frangois SIMON schrieb: ... Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I Hello, it is like for any OS on SSD HD. Make sure, you are using no swap partition! And if you are using an application, which is writing a lot of things into files, put the respective

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread Ted Unangst
2009/11/4 Roger Schreiter ro...@planinternet.de: it is like for any OS on SSD HD. Make sure, you are using no swap partition! This is ridiculous advice. And if you are using an application, which is writing a lot of things into files, put the respective dirs into ramdisks! Combined with

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread Aaron Mason
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/4 Roger Schreiter ro...@planinternet.de: it is like for any OS on SSD HD. Make sure, you are using no swap partition! This is ridiculous advice. And if you are using an application, which is writing a lot of

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread philippe aubry
Hello, I'm using a 32 GB SSD drive from approximatly one year with openBSD 4.4 into a SOEKRIS and no troubles with that, the great think is NO NOISE, NO HEAT. I used the soekris as firewall and the uptime is approximatly 178 days. Regards 2009/11/4 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com

Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread Jean-François SIMON
Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk becomes like overloaded and unavailable to continue the installing process of 4.6. Regards

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread Aaron Mason
2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk becomes like overloaded and unavailable to continue the

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread Roger Schreiter
Ted Unangst schrieb: ... no swap partition! This is ridiculous advice. ... a lot of things into files, put the respective dirs into ramdisks! Combined with this is even dumber. Hi, anyway, intensive swapping onto SDD HD will destroy your SDD HD. If RAM is the limiting resource in

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread Robert
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:39 +0100 Roger Schreiter ro...@planinternet.de wrote: Jean-Frangois SIMON schrieb: ... Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I Hello, it is like for any OS on SSD HD. Make sure, you are using no swap partition! And if you

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-04 Thread K K
2009/11/4 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk becomes like overloaded and unavailable to continue the