Re: SATA300 Controllers
Hi, I've been having the same issues. The conclusion of my testing is that type of card (aka Adaptec 1210SA, Promise PDC2* ) are not stable, reliable, performant. (For my taste btw) The underlying technology is just mickey mouse: They store the config on drive (ok); They dont accelerate mirror that much. (mirror function in driver); If you loose a drive your filesystem jam (since the mirror function is in the driver); You have to rebuilt via the bios (long downtime). The best card are the 3ware 9000/9500 series. Which is a real hard implementation. FYI: I have both success with Marvell 88SX5041 SATA150 and Promise PDC20378 SATA150. I had major failure under load with Adaptec 1210SA and Promise TX2300. Good luck. Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: Hello all, Sorry for cross-posting, but these issues seem relevant for lists... Has anyone had success with SATA300 controllers with FreeBSD 6.1? I've been trying Promise and nVidia nForce4 and I'm not having any luck. Using a MSI K8NGM2-L motherboard and others, but 6.1's installation hangs as soon as it sees ad4. I've also tried using an Adaptec 1210SA controller and had zero results. I've read that the chipset on this controller is not very good - forces serialized access to the controller's channels??? Nevertheless, I've got a K8N Diamond motherboard on a workstation and I was able to at least start the 6.1 installation. I have no idea if its stable. At this point, I'd settle for just knowing which SATA300 controller to use that will work successfully and well with FreeBSD 6.0 OR 6.1. Another question, would I have more success installing 6.0 and then upgrading the kernel and recompiling with a build-world? I'm currently trying to build a moderate large system with 4 presentation servers, 2 database servers and one large storage system using NFS mapped to ~1.2 terrabyte of SATA disks (4x Maxtor 500GB 7200 RPM disks w/RAID5 config). Any suggestions? Thanks, Derrick ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fingerprint Authentication
In most implementation I saw it was coupled with a rfid card (short distance 1inch (2.5cm)) And for usage at entrance of datacenter - a network of camera. Its not spy proof... but good enought for your average lamer. Fredrik Lindberg wrote: Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: In that case, it means the matching is a proabilistic distance-computing algorithm. This sux, for any sort of real remote logins. Yes. That's probably an accurate description. I'm by no means an expert in the biometric field, far from it. But in my most humble option, I think it would be *very* difficult to obtain an identical sample every time. When it comes to fingerprints the environment probably plays a big role in the sample, for example light conditions, skin moisture, dust on the sensor etc. Maybe there are other people on this list with better insight in this field? Fredrik Lindberg ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel 6300ESB SATA - Now Tyan B5350G20S2H-LC
Hi, Yeap, I fired up my MS-DOS 6.22 with debug.exe this morning. Its the M8110 SO-DIMM RAID card ROM that does it. And there is no control for that in the BIOS or Adaptec Menu. That motherboard also has a ATA_I6300ESB_R1 RAID 1 card ... on which BTX works but 6.1-RC dont recognize the MetaData. So I'm working around the issue while I wait for Tyan to tell me how to upgrade the M8110 ROM. FYI: I dont see the lidt / ligt opcode in the new version of that ROM. I'll let you guys know. John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 26 April 2006 21:36, Alain Hebert wrote: Well, Good and bad news... 6.1-RC works to install (thanks Soren) But BTX halt on boot: - int=000d err= efl=00030002 eip=10ce eax=000c0002 ebx= ecx=0005 edx=0100 esi=00b6 edi=03f0 ebp=3778 esp=3754 cs=c800 ds=c800 es=1400fs= gs=9880 ss=9880 cs:eip=2e 0f 01 1e 1d 11 2e 0f-01 16 23 11 0f 20 c0 66 25 ff ff ff 7f 0c 01 0f-22 c0 eb 00 0f 01 e0 a8 ss:esp=46 02 09 0e 00 00 00 00-b6 00 80 98 88 36 f0 03 b6 00 78 37 72 37 00 00-00 01 05 00 00 00 00 00 BTX halted It's in your BIOS (cs=0xc800) 2E0F011E1D11 lidt [cs:0x111d]/2 0006 2E0F01162311 lgdt [cs:0x1123] 000C 0F20C0mov eax,cr0 000F 6625FF7F and eax,0x7fff 0015 0C01 or al,0x1 0017 0F22C0mov cr0,eax 001A EB00 jmp short 0x1c 001C 0F01E0smsw ax Your BIOS is trying to enter protected mode. Try turning off support for DMA in your BIOS. -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel 6300ESB SATA - Now Tyan B5350G20S2H-LC suggestion
Well, $6k later... and the only SATA interface available are on a Adaptec AIC-8110 / HostRAID. (And the nightmare continue... I hate what Adaptec is doing with their SATA line... never worked right for me) The 6300ESB is there but its not providing SATA. Those are pricey paper weights. I'll see what I can make work with it... -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel 6300ESB SATA - Now Tyan B5350G20S2H-LC
Well, Good and bad news... 6.1-RC works to install (thanks Soren) But BTX halt on boot: - int=000d err= efl=00030002 eip=10ce eax=000c0002 ebx= ecx=0005 edx=0100 esi=00b6 edi=03f0 ebp=3778 esp=3754 cs=c800 ds=c800 es=1400fs= gs=9880 ss=9880 cs:eip=2e 0f 01 1e 1d 11 2e 0f-01 16 23 11 0f 20 c0 66 25 ff ff ff 7f 0c 01 0f-22 c0 eb 00 0f 01 e0 a8 ss:esp=46 02 09 0e 00 00 00 00-b6 00 80 98 88 36 f0 03 b6 00 78 37 72 37 00 00-00 01 05 00 00 00 00 00 BTX halted - FYI: I failed to find the code at cs:eip in the boot0, boot1, boot2 and loader file. Looks like a bad jump to me. I've try everything... (I know of) . Upgrade the BIOS (can't find a way to upgrade the Tyan M8110 board) . Boot on array (failed) . Boot on a spare drive outside the array (failed) . Booted install, used the LiveCD and the filesystems are fine... boot files checksum matches . Changed fs from 4GB=swap, 232GB=/ to 256MB=/boot, 222GB=/, 4GB=swap (failed) Going to try booting the kernel from PXE and then mounting /dev/ar0s1a... If anybody has a hint (or Hints) let me know... -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Weight of an IRIS 4D/210GTX Box anyone ?
Well, I have 7x4D/20 here (and about 12 working Indy, 6 for spare part (12 R5000), and a bunch of Indigo) The 4D/20 are about 70 pounds (~30 kilos) each. I dont know for the 210GTX but they looked similar. Anybody want a SGI? Free if you pay the shipping. Have fun. Kathy Quinlan wrote: Hi all, I have been offered a IRIS 4D/210GTX SGI box, and I need to know the rough weight, thought as google did not turn up anything and SGI seem to disown all the old stuff these days, anyone got any idea on the weight of this ? Regards, Kat. -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using any network interface whatsoever
...lazy...
Not all problems can be fixed by somebody else. Work a little for a
change.
If you wish to name your interfaces switch to Windows.
ifconfig -a | awk '/^[a-z0-9^]*:/ {i=$1} /inet / {ip=$2;net=$4;}
/status/ {print i ip - net - $2}'
em0: 10.0.1.1 - 0xff00 - active
em1: 69.x.x.x - 0xfff8 - active
em2: 64.x.x.x - 0xfff8 - active
em3: 192.168.3.1 - 0xff00 - active
em4: 206.x.x.x - 0xfff0 - active
Scott Long wrote:
Mike Meyer wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
Please trim the text you are repling to.
Please, I'm tired of arbitrary email etiquette.
But where do you put the label on an ethernet interface?
mike
It sounds like your message is, don't be like Linux. Fine, what do
you want instead? How does having 2 em devices in my system, named em0
and em1, tell me by name which one is connected to which LAN?
Scott
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Re: Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA
Søren Schmidt wrote: On Tor, 2006-03-23 at 14:55 -0500, Alain Hebert wrote: Hi, I'm about to invest in some Tyan Transport GT20 B5350G20S2H-LC. But since my epic battle trying to make the Promise Fasttrak 2300TX (PDC20580?) works right in Raid1, 2 weeks ago I'm a bit concern about those new SATA controllers. Myself I have a PDC20378 in (heavy) production with 5.4-CURRENT and its flawless, I also have a 3ware also in heavy production (way cool but pricy). But I'm wondering if the 6300ESB controller was still stable in 6-CURRENT? It should be, however hotplug/hotremoval is not supported, so if you can live without that the work just fine. I wasn't expecting anymore than - it works or it dont. I'm sure that it will be there in the future if its worth it. FYI: I'm very (to oo) gratefull for your work on this... My PDC20378 is working like a charme since 5.4. Anybody need a Promise Fasttrak 2300TX to develop/test/fix? I know that the 6-CURRENT driver wasn't recognizing the Raid config with the 2.5.x firmware, but was ok with the original firmware (2.0.x) You can always send ATA gear to me and get (better) support that way, in fact that, and sponsoring time to work on it is *the* way to get ATA support moving forward as I have limited amounts of spare time. BTW this has been so for the past 6+ years :) I can sponsor a card if its worth it. But my views are: *BSD should not be like Linux and support sub-standard hardware. I dont know the stand of the community on which SATA controller to focus developement on. (Like the adaptecs where with the SCSI Interface). Personally, if I have to deploy mirror, geom is good enought at the moment. But for real production, there is no way around a 3ware card. (mmm 3ware...) - For sponsoring time: Heck, I'm broke and ain't a manufacturer. (; My biggest problem at the moment is documentation. I have nothing on the PDC chipsets... I have spare disks, card, and a couple of P3 boxes... - I've been helping with the saa7135 (TV/FM card) but I have the same issue with chipset documentation... So I'm reduce to be a test monkey. I dont have the patience anymore to endlessly try stuff up, I need documentation and its been a while since I saw a silicon pusher so all my contacts are pretty much all dried up. (Any hint are welcome) -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Intel 6300ESB SATA and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA
Hi, I'm about to invest in some Tyan Transport GT20 B5350G20S2H-LC. But since my epic battle trying to make the Promise Fasttrak 2300TX (PDC20580?) works right in Raid1, 2 weeks ago I'm a bit concern about those new SATA controllers. Myself I have a PDC20378 in (heavy) production with 5.4-CURRENT and its flawless, I also have a 3ware also in heavy production (way cool but pricy). But I'm wondering if the 6300ESB controller was still stable in 6-CURRENT? - And for Roger, Oh well, replacing the SATA cable fixed it, I'm terribly sorry about that :( Meaning? I know of only 1 cable format. Thanks. - Anybody need a Promise Fasttrak 2300TX to develop/test/fix? I know that the 6-CURRENT driver wasn't recognizing the Raid config with the 2.5.x firmware, but was ok with the original firmware (2.0.x) Let me know. -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About release(7), build(7), ports(7), etc...
Hi, I successfully build a RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE distributions except for the packages. from release(7) cd /usr cvs co -rRELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE src cd src make buildworld cd release make release CHROOTDIR=/local3/release BUILDNAME=4.5-RELEASE \ CVSROOT=/host/cvs/usr/home/ncvs RELEASETAG=RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE (replace the 4_5_0 by 4_7_0) - My questions are: Which mailing list take care of this part (src/release, building dist, etc...) (freebsd-config is flatline for some time now...) Should I attempt to get in contact with [EMAIL PROTECTED]? (Author of the http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/ book) Just hack something together and do a make rerelease with the packages in R/cdrom/disc1? I'm sure that the guys that do the OFFICIAL CD's are using release... I'm just missing some magic steps. Thanks. -- Alain Hebert[EMAIL PROTECTED] PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 147 Cote Saint Luc, Quebec H4V 2Y3 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netfax 514-990-9443 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
