Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > Thanks for the data point. > > > Did you have to do anything with firmware? not at all - driver in the kernel is mature - but again it is 3Gb/s per port. Honestly I must look inside the server as I do not remember how it is connected. I have 12 disk bay. It could be

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 10/02/2020 à 12:17, Rick Thomas a écrit : For a friend... Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free firmware? He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-3.0-specs.html That he'd like

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread Felix Miata
David Christensen composed on 2020-02-10 16:41 (UTC-0800): > I am using another Syba SD-SA2PEX-2IR card in one of my computers with a > pair of Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5 TB drives. I used Seagate SeaTools > Bootable to erase both. The erase seemed to proceed okay. One drive > was visibly fast

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-02-10 14:28, deloptes wrote: I have this one for may be 7y already. 08:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08) https://wiki.pdl.cmu.edu/pub/OpenCloud/CloudManuals/SCG_LSISAS1068E_PB_040407.pdf It is 3Gb/s - don't know about t

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-02-10 13:55, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 10, 2020, David Christensen wrote: [...] It has the following expansion slots: - One PCI Express 2.0 x16 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x4 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x1 add-in card connector a. While migrating b

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread deloptes
> My research thus far: > > 1. LSI products are popular, but: > > a. Most seem to be PCIe x8. > > b. STFW I see more than a few posts complaining about changing > firmware from RAID to non-RAID, buggy firmware releases, and/or > motherboard BIOS/UEFI incompatibilities with the fla

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread Felix Miata
David Christensen composed on 2020-02-10 13:23 (UTC-0800): > Comments? Have you considered incorporating newer (nvme) technology? e.g. Whether compatible with the Q67 chipset I don't know, but it

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 10, 2020, David Christensen wrote: > [...] > It has the following expansion slots: > > - One PCI Express 2.0 x16 add-in card connector > - One PCI Express 2.0 x4 add-in card connector > - One PCI Express 2.0 x1 add-in card connector > > a. While migrating backup data, I recently saw a

Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-10 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have a system with an Intel DQ67SW desktop board: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/motherboards/desktop/dq67sw/dq67sw_techprodspec02.pdf It has the following expansion slots: - One PCI Express 2.0 x16 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x4 add

Re: Repair bootable USB stick

2020-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-02-09 17:00, ghe2001 wrote: On Sunday, February 9, 2020 5:10 PM, David Christensen wrote: # time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Ultra_Fit_-0\:0 Assuming dd has already put the img at the beginning of the thumbDrive, how about asking gparted o

Re: Reply to a message in the Web presentation.

2020-02-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 10 feb 20, 10:36:18, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Given that References includes the In-Reply-To identifier, I'm not > sure In-Reply-To is necessary for threading. Without In-Reply-To a mail reader has no way to which message the reply belongs, so it's more important than References.

Reply to a message in the Web presentation.

2020-02-10 Thread peter
From: David Wright Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:18:27 -0500 > But your threading has improved after a poor patch earlier this month > when the magnifying glasses were being pasted inside the links' < > > again. Syntax for threading is fairly simple really; but probably not obvious to someon

Re: Cross debootstrap without root rights

2020-02-10 Thread Christoph Müllner
Hi Josch, [I did not get your email, I just saw it in the mail archives...] thanks for the overview and the reference to the bug ticket. I've succeeded with the fakechroot/fakeroot approach and got the required inspiration for setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH from your tool and https://bugs.debian.org/855

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 23:47:59 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2020 14:29:08 David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 11:24:46 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > I don't use fish that I know of. Thats not to say mc isn't using > > > it. In which case someone has be

Re: local network capability scanner?

2020-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 08 Feb 2020 at 10:38:19 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once > >> > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the > >> > benefits of compression and aggregation. > >> rsync? > > Sure, if you're updati

Re: how to seamlessly play audio clip

2020-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 08 Feb 2020 at 07:38:10 (+), Long Wind wrote: > On Saturday, February 8, 2020, 10:51:14 AM GMT+8, David Wright > wrote: > > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 23:53:06 (+), Long Wind wrote: > > > i use mplayer -loop 0 to play white noise(it might help sleep by masking > > > other noise) > >

Re: Force device node link creation

2020-02-10 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 08:40:47 (+0100), Christoph Pleger wrote: > On 2020-02-06 19:47, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 06 Feb 2020 at 17:56:00 (+0100), Christoph Pleger wrote: > > > > > > I am using a program for automatic creation of a harddisk partitioning > > > from a configuration file. That fi

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As that text says, the "mac" ISOs do/did not contain anything extra > but rather lack/lacked of UEFI boot entry points and of any UEFI boot > software. Some MAC firmwares are said to take offense from UEFI > bootable ISOs. Simply try whether yours is among them. If any > mentioning of "Debian"

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Rick, On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 03:17:14AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >For a friend... > >Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free >firmware? > >He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 > > https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-q

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rick Thomas wrote: > I notice that the webpage at >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmw > are/10.3.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/ > mentions a mac image as if it *should* be there, but it's not in the list of > files. As that text says, the "mac" ISOs do/did n

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
I notice that the webpage at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.3.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/ mentions a mac image as if it *should* be there, but it's not in the list of files. Is that an oversight, or was there a conscious decision to drop "mac" sup

Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
For a friend... Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free firmware? He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-3.0-specs.html That he'd like to get Linux running on. A live image for the s

Re: Repair bootable USB stick

2020-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (please Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org when replying Jon Magee wrote: > I ran dd as you suggested, unplugged/replugged the USB, and > started KDE partition manager. It saw it as an 'unknown device (0 B)'. I > tried to create a new partition table and got this error: > Create a new partition