3ware rebuild problems fixed

2005-04-29 Thread Matt Staroscik
that with a SMART checker from ports. Once the bad sectors were remapped, I was able to rebuild my array. Hope this helps someone! -- * I am Matt Staroscik and I approved this message. ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://wrongcrowd.com * 4 8 15 16 23 42 ___ freebsd

IPF, VOIP, packet priority?

2005-02-16 Thread Matt Staroscik
on how that will work with my existing ipf firewall rules. Thanks for any leads. -- *** I am Matt Staroscik and I approved this message. *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://wrongcrowd.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: My computer keeps crashing

2005-01-20 Thread Matt Staroscik
This sure smells like a hardware problem. I think the problem might be due to my bios settings running the CPU to fast although I do not think I am overclocking it. This might explain the strange timing of the problem, maybe the motherboard is unstable. If you are not explicitly overclocking,

Re: Running own servers

2004-12-21 Thread Matt Staroscik
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Bad blocks 3ware RAID rebuild -- resolution

2004-11-11 Thread Matt Staroscik
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Fixing bad blocks (was: Re: Do you need to dismount /usr to dump it?)

2004-11-10 Thread Matt Staroscik
a Knoppix CD too.) Thanks to all for the input. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Matt Staroscik * KF6IYW * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://wrongcrowd.com The combined weight of the horrors I have authored wrought would crush your carbon hearts into perfect diamonds

Do you need to dismount /usr to dump it?

2004-11-09 Thread Matt Staroscik
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Trouble rebuilding array on 3ware 7000 (twe)

2004-11-08 Thread Matt Staroscik
I need a hand from a disk guru as I am having some problems with a 7000-2 mirror under 4.10. My 3ware Escalade 7000-2 has a pair of Maxtor 160GBs on it. I run them mirrored. The other day, a drive bit the dust. As the disk was well and truly hosed according to the Maxtor utilities, I chucked

Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

2004-10-25 Thread Matt Staroscik
At 02:59 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: Just a side comment from the peanut gallery... I was referring to the fact that in most cases, the solution in the end most often IS to just reformat and reinstall because there's so much cruft/crap/crud in the registry and Windows directories that that is the

How do you duplicate a drive?

2004-10-01 Thread Matt Staroscik
I have a RAID mirror (2x 160GB) which I would like to back up onto a spare 160GB drive. I do not have a hot-swap caddy so I was planning on powering down the system to get the backup drive in and out. But once I have the new blank drive in, what is the best way to duplicate the RAID? Ideally

Backup to USB HD--mounting, dumping, unmounting?

2004-08-18 Thread Matt Staroscik
My FreeBSD server is on a mirrored pair of 160GB drives. I have been doing partial backups by simply copying data and important config files to CD-RW, but I wanted a way to back up the complete filesystem too, so I could restore in case of disaster. To that end I purchased a hard disk in an

Packet loss: how to troubleshoot?

2004-06-24 Thread Matt Staroscik
Lately I am getting a lot of messages like: /kernel: vr0 - Packet lost (I don't have the log in front of me so I may not have the exact syntax.) My machine is a router/server, and vr0 is my internal interface, serving a home LAN. I use ipnat and ipf for a firewall. How can I go about

Re: internet via USB: how to use with FreeBSD?

2004-04-07 Thread Matt Staroscik
What is the device? There are at least four in the 5.X GENERIC kernel: You can also call the cable company and say that your computer doesn't have USB. I think they usually have some Ethernet equipped devices for situations like that. They should swap it out for free.

Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Matt Staroscik
At 04:39 PM 3/19/2004, Dan Rue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm.. I don't know what other people think about this - but I really never run any PHP stuff from ports. It is easier, imo, to just download the tgz and unzip it to the directory you want it in. Yes, exactly. You can download the latest

smblog format?

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Staroscik
When I connect my PocketPC to my Samba server, the device has a very strange name in smblog: netbios connect: local=server remote=_cerdrc9cb8005 _cerdrc9cb8005 (192.168.1.94) connect to service Music as user USER (uid=, gid=) (pid 44909) _cerdrc9cb8005 is just an example, the exact

Broken, orphaned port: how can I help?

2003-12-31 Thread Matt Staroscik
Yesterday I tried installing a port and found that it was broken though not marked as such. The problems were simple -- simple enough that *I* got it working! -- and I emailed the listed port maintainer with what I have found. Now, I haven't heard back, but I am not jumping to conclusions

x10d X10 interface controller: not compiling (4.9) (Also: other X10 apps?)

2003-12-30 Thread Matt Staroscik
I am trying to get a CM11A X10 interface wired into my FreeBSD server. It looks like most of the software out there relies on x10d, which is only available as source code: ftp://ftp.danlan.com/ftp.danlan.com/homeauto/x10d.cm11.txt Karl Denninger's site advises adding this to get the code to

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Staroscik
I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. I recently installed PHPNuke and have some observations that might be relevant to your situation.

SMART hard drive utility?

2003-07-31 Thread Matt Staroscik
Does anyone know of a utility to monitor temperature and event logs on SMART hard drives? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

qpopper pop3 and SSL experiences

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Staroscik
To make a long story short, I have been unable to get qpopper 4.0.5 + SSL to work with Eudora 5.2.1. Using my self-signed cert I can get a secure connection to Apple's OS X mail client, but not Mac or Windows Eudora. On the Mac I see handshake errors, on Windows I get errors which I may be able

More POP3/SSL Eudora [Was: Re: qpopper pop3 and SSL experiences]

2003-07-27 Thread Matt Staroscik
Thanks all for the help. Today I installed courier-imap, and reconfigured Exim for Maildir delivery, and I can now get mail out over POP3 + SSL. Apple's OS X mail client and Mac Eudora 6b are working fine. (I had sort of been wanting to try maildirs, and this way I can evolve to IMAP if I want,

Can't assign IP to network interface vr0

2003-07-25 Thread Matt Staroscik
I have a system with a 'vr' driver NIC in it. ifconfig sees the interface (and I have miibus and vr in my kernel) yet I cannot assign an IP address to it with rc.conf or ifconfig it just doesn't stick. If I use ifconfig to take it down and bring it back up nothing changes but the RUNNING

Re: Can't assign IP to network interface vr0

2003-07-25 Thread Matt Staroscik
Solved it: after more searching, the great Google hath taught me that you can't have 2 IP addresses on the same subnet on one machine... and I was trying to set the NICs to 192.168.1.n and .n+1. Too bad this doesn't drop a message in a logfile though. Or if it did, I wasn't looking in the right

Adaptec 2400A update

2003-07-17 Thread Matt Staroscik
To summarize previous posts: my Adaptec 2400A RAID card, with 2 Maxtor 160GB drives (model 6Y160P0) in a RAID-1, corrupts data and produces kernel panics under heavy activity. This is under 4.8 (plain vanilla install), ECS L7VTA motherboard (KT400), 512MB RAM, one vr NIC (on motherboard), 1 dc

Re: Adaptec 2400A RAID controller corrupting data (4.8)

2003-07-16 Thread Matt Staroscik
I am going to break this saga into 2 posts, one with the ugly details for those who are interested, and one short post with the essential questions and observations. I have that card with 6 60 gig drives and set the box up (freebsd 4.7?) and it would run for a day or so and just crash. I also

Adaptec 2400A RAID controller corrupting data (4.8)

2003-07-15 Thread Matt Staroscik
I have started building myself a new file server, and at the heart of it are 2 Maxtor 160GB drives in a RAID-1, using the Adaptec 2400a. Unfortunately I am having some kind of issue with data on the array getting corrupted. During disk activity (like makeworld, cvsup, rm -rf /usr/obj/*) I get