Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-15 Thread Steven Hartland
Never only set one end manually, always set both the machine and the switch. Regards Steve - Original Message - From: James Tanis jta...@mdchs.org To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:12 PM Subject:

Re: SATA 300 Drive Being Run At 150

2007-07-26 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad0: 70911MB WDC WD740ADFD-60NLR1 20.07P20 at ata0-master SATA150 ad2: 238474MB WDC WD2500JD-50FYB0 02.05D02 at ata1-master SATA150 Those are SATA150 disks so no problem there. Regards Steve

Re: Strange freeze on -STABLE

2007-03-15 Thread Steven Hartland
If its always when the box is quiet / no one using it, is it something to do with power saving settings? Steve Deniss Lee wrote: But what's interesting - music keeps playing (line-in). Both pf (firewall/routing) and sound card is loaded as modules, music keeps playing, but network is

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Hartland
Chris wrote: On 15/05/06, fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep the ports tree how it is, as others have said the size is small on modern hard drives and bandwidth trivial, once the initial ports tree is in place keeping it up to date needs very little bandwidth and its only distfiles that tend to

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-15 Thread Steven Hartland
Adrian Pavone wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: This is why there are options in place that would allow you to download the cvsup to one of you computers, likely a server of some sort, and your other computers all retrieve the CVSup from this local server, significantly speeding up the retrieval

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-13 Thread Steven Hartland
Garance A Drosihn wrote: Unfortunately, this is the wrong solution. I'm sure you will love this *IFF* (that means if and ONLY if) all of *YOUR* ports are in that category of important ports. We have 15,000 ports because every single one of those ports has some users who think that specific

Re: Strange case of filesystem corruption?

2005-09-06 Thread Steven Hartland
have u run fsck on the fs in question while unmounted? - Original Message - From: Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can this be explained by anything other than a (nasty) bug? % ls -la audio/shorten/files total 0 % rmdir audio/shorten/files rmdir: audio/shorten/files: Directory not

Re: Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-23 Thread Steven Hartland
Sounds like u have followed the install guide with the drivers. I couldn't get that to work ( without ACPI ) I had to install with ACPI but this was 5.4-RELEASE but using the 5.3 driver from highpoints site as there wasn't a 5.4 driver available. 1. Boot from cd 2. got to boot prompt, load the

Re: Installing a new system....

2004-05-05 Thread Steven Hartland
Just doing exactly that. Order so far: XP i386, XP 64 (beta), Linux i386, Linux 64 Still to do FreeBSD. You must do XP i386 first as the boot loader for XP 64 is more up to date. Linux i386 need ACPI disabled here MS-9245 series machine dual 246 with 4GB. Not having much luck with FreeBSD at as I

Re: etherchannel on 5.2.1 - possible?

2004-04-19 Thread Steven Hartland
When I checked the various methods a while back all resulted in performance drop not increase on a dual port intel etherxpress Pro 100. If anyone has different experiences I also would be interested. Also noted was that Gb performance on nge was also lower than that of fxp on 100Mb especially when