Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM

2007-06-21 Thread Fluffles
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Like I said, I don't run 64-bit OSes because I prefer compatibility. Believe me, the instant you run into some quirky problem with either the kernel or any of its subsystems, or a third-party program (from ports or

Re: Promise TX2300 array not detected.

2007-06-06 Thread Fluffles
Matthew Hagerty wrote: Hey Lukas, Thanks for the response! Wow, that seems like a messy procedure, but I'll go see if I can get things working. I only have three questions at this point: 1. What is atacontrol doing that lets FreeBSD see the array? 2. After using atacontrol, is this now a

Re: Non-raid PCIe SATA controller with 8 ports?

2007-06-01 Thread Fluffles
Martin Cracauer wrote: Hi, is there any PCIe SATA controller with 8 ports that has decent FreeBSD drivers, including NCQ, and decent performance on the level of the ICH or Nvidia onboard ports? As far as i know, there's no NCQ for the ata(4) driver, so you can only use SCSI TCQ and NCQ on

Re: Hardware supported?

2007-02-26 Thread Fluffles
MeX wrote: On Mon, 2007-Feb-26 at 00:56:59 +0100, Fluffles wrote: Onboard RAID does not really exist. The actual RAID is done by drivers; onboard RAID is actually software RAID with a minor RAID BIOS which can write metainformation about the array configuration and has BIOS bootstrap

Re: Hardware supported?

2007-02-26 Thread Fluffles
Paul van der Linden wrote: Fluffles wrote: Onboard RAID does not really exist. The actual RAID is done by drivers; onboard RAID is actually software RAID with a minor RAID BIOS which can write metainformation about the array configuration and has BIOS bootstrap support. This is also called

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 installer doesn't see my SATA disk on Shuttle ST20G5

2007-02-25 Thread Fluffles
Gilles Gravier wrote: Thanks Veronica!! And where can I find the hardware compatibility list, please? I haven't checked since I don't know where to look for it. The only thing I have is : http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/6-STABLE/hardware/amd64/index.html ... but it doesn't name any

Re: Hardware supported?

2007-02-25 Thread Fluffles
Paul van der Linden wrote: I was mostly talking about the raid controller, the Intel ICH7 is mentioned on the hardware list: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atasektion=4manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE But they only mention ICH7 which is without raid. Does this mean the raid

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 installer doesn't see my SATA disk on Shuttle ST20G5

2007-02-24 Thread Fluffles
Gilles Gravier wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my Shuttle ST20G5 with one DVD drive (off of which the FreeBSD 6.2 AMD boot CD boots perfectly)... I am asked for default or no ACPI (tried both - even tried with the normal i386 boot CD), then prompted for region and keyboard

Re: Building new AM2 system, advice needed

2007-02-08 Thread Fluffles
Scott I. Remick wrote: So it's been a while, but I'm ready to build a replacement system for my desktop. It seems a lot has changed since I last built one, and the decisions (hardware support) are foggier than last time. I'm not so rich that I can afford to keep buying stuff and sending it

Re: External HDD

2007-02-08 Thread Fluffles
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: BTW, many 2,5 enclosures I've seen require two usb ports, the second one just to get more power. Hm well with a Samsung drive you won't need an extra cable; at least not with proper enclosure like i have. Works perfectly with one cable. Very convenient to more 100GB

Re: Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems

2007-02-08 Thread Fluffles
Claude Khalil wrote: Hello, I have seeked help from the newsgroup but since this is a real hardware problem, I hope that you can assist... We have purchased an Intel server (board + chassis) SR1500ALSAS (the board is S5000PAL)

Re: Intel S5000PAL with RAID problems

2007-02-08 Thread Fluffles
Simon wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:01:42 +0100, Fluffles wrote: Claude Khalil wrote: Then it's fake RAID; true hardware RAID controllers will never reveil the disks 'behind' the controller. Thus if FreeBSD sees the individual disks you actually are not using true hardware

Re: freebsd - boot error

2006-12-26 Thread Fluffles
freebsd wrote: I am working in freebsd 6.0 unix system. Currently I am installing apache and php. Now I am not able to boot it normally. When I boot unix it automatically enters into the single user mode The error is 'ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABKLE

Re: SATA-hdd or SATA-controller trouble.

2006-10-03 Thread Fluffles
Rich Wales wrote: Although it's possible that Anton could be having hardware problems due to overheating or other drive flakiness, there have been lots of reports of timeout problems with SATA drives on Promise controllers under heavy I/O load, from many people, for quite some time now, and I

Re: New motherboard

2006-09-15 Thread Fluffles
Ian Moore wrote: Hi, I'm buying a new computer and was wondering if anyone has had any experience with the Intel DP965LTCK motherboard which uses the 965 chipset? Cheers, I suggest you buy one of the boards listed here: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html -

Re: SATA-hdd or SATA-controller trouble.

2006-09-14 Thread Fluffles
Anton wrote: Hello! I've some trouble and cannt identify matter. May be someone knows ? First time it looks like this: Aug 21 18:46:27 nrr kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=344654303 Aug 21 18:46:32 nrr kernel: ad4: FAILURE - ATA_IDENTIFY timed out Aug 21

nForce4 Serial ATA detects only 1 drive

2006-03-15 Thread Fluffles
Hi guys, I'm having problems detecting _both_ Serial ATA disks on my nForce4 motherboard. FreeBSD successfully detects the first disk but not the second. Same story when i swap the disks; only ad4 no ad6. This can't be a broken hardware issue: i tried TWO motherboards of the same type and TWO