Re: megamgr on 6.1?

2006-05-09 Thread Brian Szymanski
kldload amr_linux did the trick for me, thanks! Cheers, B > Boris Samorodov writes: > | On Tue, 9 May 2006 12:37:43 -0400 (EDT) Brian Szymanski wrote: > | > PS - mknod c 254 /compat/linux/dev/megadev0 (which is what the device > is > | > under linux) doesn't help :( >

Re: megamgr on 6.1?

2006-05-09 Thread Brian Szymanski
PS - mknod c 254 /compat/linux/dev/megadev0 (which is what the device is under linux) doesn't help :( > >> On Tue, 9 May 2006 10:15:31 -0400 (EDT) Brian Szymanski wrote: >> >>> Oh, duh, it's been so long since I used linux binary emulation that I >>>

Re: megamgr on 6.1?

2006-05-09 Thread Brian Szymanski
> On Tue, 9 May 2006 10:15:31 -0400 (EDT) Brian Szymanski wrote: > >> Oh, duh, it's been so long since I used linux binary emulation that I >> forgot all about brandelf... Thanks Michael! > >> ... But now that the binary is properly branded, I get a different >&

Re: megamgr on 6.1?

2006-05-09 Thread Brian Szymanski
else I've tried... (and I know for a fact that TERM=xterm works on my linux machines)... Any ideas? Cheers, Brian > Brian Szymanski wrote: >> Hi... >> >> I saw this in the 6.1 release notes and eagerly upgraded: >> "The amr(4) driver now supports ioctl(2) requ

megamgr on 6.1?

2006-05-09 Thread Brian Szymanski
, BIOS G119, 64MB RAM ... amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller amrd0: on amr0 amrd0: 953656MB (1953087488 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/src/megaraid]# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 15 0xc040 504e7c kernel 21 0xc4bc2000 1a000linux.ko Brian

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-12 Thread Brian Szymanski
e with that card's drivers and would be happy to raise any other issues you may be seeing. >> >> Aside from the that we have had good experiences with Areca card. >> >> Steve >> - Original Message - >> From: "Brian Szymanski" <[EMAIL

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Szymanski
ey are also probably not too cheap, but I have been very happy > with the 3Ware SATA card. 3Ware has been very good at support for > FreeBSD and the management tool (3DM2) is in ports. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawre

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Szymanski
om/english/product/pci/rz_sata_8/8586rz_e.htm > > Expensive? Yes. > > Fast, reliable, cheap - pick any two ;-) In my case, I'm actually shooting for reliable and (relatively) cheap :) Fast is nice but I don't much care, so the megaraids look slightly better than this product, b

well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-10 Thread Brian Szymanski
s have had good luck with? I've been happy with the megaraid series on linux at my job, but I'm wondering if the management utilities are there on freebsd, etc. Thanks in advance... Brian Szymanski Software and Systems Developer Media Matters for Amer

Re: gvinum/vinum on 6.0

2006-01-12 Thread Brian Szymanski
upgrade from vinum on 5.3 to gvinum on 6-STABLE without a dump/restore? I probably won't do this out of paranoia, but am curious if it's possible. Thanks again and cheers, Brian Brian Szymanski Software and Systems Developer Media

Re: gvinum/vinum on 6.0

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Szymanski
inum create again. Would I have better luck compiling gvinum into the kernel instead of loading the module? What do other folks who have successful config's do? Thanks in advance, Brian Brian Szymanski Software and Systems Developer Media Matters for America [EMAIL PROTECTED] vinum.r5.cf Des

gvinum/vinum on 6.0

2006-01-10 Thread Brian Szymanski
rather unhappily, to stick with 4.x and some early 5.x releases b/c vinum is critical for me... Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Brian Szymanski Software and Systems Developer Media Matters for America [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.o

boot0/BIOS problem...

2005-05-30 Thread Brian Szymanski
;s really confused about the new card? I'm running 5.3-p15 (can't go to 5.4, because I need vinum R5 to at least partially work! sigh...) Thanks in advance, Brian Szymanski Software and Systems Developer Media Matters for America [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

iTE IT8212 card/ata problems

2004-12-30 Thread Brian Szymanski
d? I don't see it in hardware-i386.html, but generic ata cards have worked for me in the past - was I just been getting lucky before? Thanks for any ideas. Cheers, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

dump/restore with ufs2

2004-12-28 Thread Brian Szymanski
Does this mean my snapshots are being overwritten on the target disk? And if so, that's a good thing, right? Cheers, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: vinum raid 5

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Szymanski
>>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Szymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian> Actually I experienced a number of bugs with vinum in 5.3 that > Brian> proved fatal to a root vinum install (in fact, everything on > Brian> the second ATA channel

Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?

2004-11-26 Thread Brian Szymanski
>>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Szymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> That is not completely fair for vinum >>> >>> I've been running vinum now for the better of 3-4 years, and even >>> with a set of very flaky sea

Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?

2004-11-26 Thread Brian Szymanski
vinum stop working in favor of gvinum? is it with 5.3? Could I expect 5.2.1 to work? Pardon the barrage of questions, but it would take me hours to test each case, so if anyone knows, drop me a line. Thanks! Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

gvinum raid 5 (was re: graid3)

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Szymanski
ANUALLY --- THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: ufs: /dev/gvinum/big (/home) Automatic file system check failed; help! Pulling power on the RAID0/RAID1 arrays I have does what I expect it to do... Anyone have any idea what's going

Re: 5.3 on Intel 386 ?

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Szymanski
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Re: graid3 - requirements or manpage wrong?

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Szymanski
've never used Raid-5 before... If there are known bugs, I'd appreciate someone sending me a link to where I can read more. Cheers, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-23 Thread Brian Szymanski
64m54.298s user52m56.915s sys 9m13.041s make -j2 buildworld: real67m55.816s user56m20.778s sys 10m20.247s make -j3 buildworld: real70m53.936s user59m2.447s sys 10m43.325s make -j4 buildworld: real72m25.904s user60m19.098s sys 10m59.492s -- Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

DEAD THREAD: What OS are you? fun

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Szymanski
This thread needs to die. The speed of light has nothing to do with this mailing list, period. Let this be the last post to it. Thank you! Cheers, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gregory Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri

Re: portupgrade crash on 4.9-stable

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Szymanski
me. > > Good luck. > > Cheers > -- > Ricardo Oliva > Core Systems Administrator > Zoology Department > University of British Columbia > Ph.: 604-822-3882 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 17-Nov-04, at 1:21 PM, Brian Szymanski wrote: > >> Hi, I

portupgrade crash on 4.9-stable

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Szymanski
.x machines - everytime I cvsup portupgrade wants to generate an INDEX.tmp before it doesn anything... But the real problem is the segfault with ruby, which can be reliably reproduced ad infinitum. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] I prefer pgp encrypted email

ad0 vs. ad0s1 (was Re: vinum troubles on 5.3)

2004-11-12 Thread Brian Szymanski
single access. Recovery is trivial when drive C or D goes. Since drives C and D form one raid-5 volume together, just chuck both drives and replace the makeshift drive with a new 200G drive. I am aware of and don't care about the performance hit. Cheers, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

vinum troubles on 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Brian Szymanski
which is less surprising. Does anyone know of another way to accomplish the same thing (Raid5 over two disks and 2 half sized disks concatenated together?) or a similar result? Any help would be most appreciated. Cheers, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: setting kern.ngroups

2003-03-18 Thread Brian Szymanski
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:53:00AM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 11:10, Brian Szymanski wrote: > > I'm having some trouble setting the (read-only) sysctl value kern.ngroups. > > Raising the maximum number of groups requires changes all over

setting kern.ngroups

2003-03-18 Thread Brian Szymanski
at value should I choose? I've also tried 128 with no success, and am working my way down to 16, but I'm not sure if I trust the kernel that I might get by compiling in such a way... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To U