disklabel backups
Hi, Just a thought... Twice I've needed a backup of disklabel... the first instance was user error, and the second was due to a failing hard drive that needed information to be retrieved from it. Both times after getting the disklabel set correctly, I was able to remount the filesystems and use them as normal. However getting the details right was difficult. I now backup disklabel in my backup procedures. However, I understand OpenBSDs /etc/periodic does a backup of disklabel to the filesystem. A feature like this would be great on FreeBSD, as in the event of a future failure I could retrieve the disklabel from backups. Not sure if this is the right mailing list to send this to, so let me know if it isn't. Regards, Peter Hoskin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with PCI SATA Controller
Hi, I've had a number of problems with this card. Please note I'm not using this as a RAID card. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3:0: class=0x010400 card=0x61121095 chip=0x31121095 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc)' device = 'SiI 3112 SATALink/SATARaid Controller' class= mass storage subclass = RAID Under FreeBSD 5, it'd continually generate timeout - WRITE_DMA errors which would make the disks operate really slow... I found many others to be having the same issue and they recommended dropping back to PIO mode... seems I cannot do that on this card. Under FreeBSD 6-BETA5, I never managed to get it installed... was getting an error DANGER WILL ROBINSON Under FreeBSD 6-RELEASE, I wasn't able to install with multiple disk slices which I have attempted several times for the machine to lock up when it gets to 28% copied each time. I ended up partitioning as a single slice and strangely this worked. However, it seems whenever there is a bit of disk activity the machine locks up just after dumping the error ata2: DISCONNECT requested Strangely this seems to happen everytime if I begin accessing both disks I have attached to this controller at once. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with PCI SATA Controller
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Unfortunately the sii 3112 is a bit of a horrornumerous people have experienced issues with it (web search on sii 3112 data corruption makes quite interesting reading). I seem to recall a posting suggesting that some success might be had with just 1 SATA channel (i.e 1 disk) attached, however I can't find it offhand. Cheers Mark *sigh* I guess I'll be taking the card back and getting some PATA - SATA adaptors. I need two drives as I wish to do a mirrored RAID, which with this card seems to be out of the question. Regards, Peter Hoskin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to sing up to a spam list?
Marcin Jessa wrote: Even though my anti-spam email gateways drop tons of spam everyday, some of it still gets through. I want to test my new anti-spam filters and therefore sign in/publish an email account to a spammer database. Any idea where I can do that ? Spamcop.net is a great place for reporting spam. All the users of MX have been informed to submit any spam getting through the filters to Spamcop. I use SpamAssassin to block email, which also checks Spamcops database. However its not a wise idea to send all the spam from that account to someone like Spamcop, if you get something legitimate? On the testing though, signup for some spam lists such as lolfun.com and optinbig.com -- .---. |. ____ ___ _______ | | ./ | . ) | | ||\ |/ \ | . ) / \ | | / | '_) | | |__ | \ | | .. | | '_) | __ | | \. | \ | | || \ | | '' | | \ || | | \.| \ | | |___ | \| || \__/ | \ \__/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || | Hosted by 10mbit.biz | `' ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
