atacontrol reinit

2012-03-30 Thread Petri Helenius
Hi, How do I accomplish atacontrol reinit in 9.0 with ATA_CAM enabled? Plugged drives don't show up without a reboot and camcontrol reset or rescan does not help. Pete ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 11:47 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I'm wondering why you would > prefere atacontrol? I think everyone's been looking for an "official" solution. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, March 01, 2011 a las 09:15:01AM +, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:21 +0100, David Demelier wrote: > > > But I can still hear the noise every 10 seconds, I think atacontrol does > > not totally close the APM feature of the device. > &g

Re: atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:21 +0100, David Demelier wrote: > But I can still hear the noise every 10 seconds, I think atacontrol does > not totally close the APM feature of the device. atacontrol's spindown setting doesn't change anything in the disk itself: it just controls a t

atacontrol spindown 0 does not work

2011-03-01 Thread David Demelier
Hello, I don't like to hear the spin down from my hard drive, it does it every 10 seconds approximately. I used ataidle -P 0 /dev/ad0 to disable it and it works. When I saw there was a atacontrol command for this, I tried it, so I removed ataidle and I tried : markand@Melon ~ $

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 29/4/09 14:18, Alexander Popov wrote: > Hi, Daniel, > > This is the output: > > Checking setuid files and devices: > > Checking for uids of 0: > root 0 > toor 0 > > Checking for passwordless accounts: > > Checking login.conf permissions: > > ***.home kernel log messages: > +++ /tmp/security.G4Qu

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 4/29/09, Alexander Popov wrote: > > All FreeBSD system partitions are on a disk that I never try to spin down. > It is weird that something in periodic daily tries to read from my data > disks... Than disable one by one until problem got fixed(easy to say than done), if not than it is ata bug.

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Alexander Popov
All FreeBSD system partitions are on a disk that I never try to spin down. It is weird that something in periodic daily tries to read from my data disks... Alexander. --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > From: Paul B. Mahol > Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown > To: aopo...@

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Alexander Popov
d, 4/29/09, Daniel C. Dowse wrote: > From: Daniel C. Dowse > Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 3:07 PM > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:44:51 -0700 (PDT) > Alexander Popov wrote: > > > > > Hi, Daniel

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Paul B. Mahol
lock keeps local time, as opposed to > # UTC time. See adjkerntz(8) for details. > 1,310-5 * * * rootadjkerntz -a > > > > --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > >> From: Paul B. Mahol >> Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown >> To: aopo...@yahoo.c

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Alexander Popov
nthly # # Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to # UTC time. See adjkerntz(8) for details. 1,310-5 * * * rootadjkerntz -a --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > From: Paul B. Mahol > Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Alexander Popov wrote: > > Hi, Daniel, > > It must be periodic(8), but I have trouble identifying what exactly could be > the trigger. If I look at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, it has > daily_clean_disks_enable="NO". > With respect to daily checks, I j

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 4/29/09, Alexander Popov wrote: > > Hi, Daniel, > > It must be periodic(8), but I have trouble identifying what exactly could be > the trigger. If I look at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, it has > daily_clean_disks_enable="NO". > With respect to daily checks, I just have the default setup, nothin

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Alexander Popov
any other configuration options that I should look at? Thanks, Alexander. --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Daniel C. Dowse wrote: > From: Daniel C. Dowse > Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 1:50 PM > On Wed, 29 Apr

Re: atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:10:04 -0700 (PDT) Alexander Popov wrote: > > Hi, > > With FreeBSD 7.1 I've started using atacontrol spindown for my secondary > disks (i.e. disks that are accessed very infrequently). Everything seemed to > work nice until I noticed in my &qu

atacontrol spindown

2009-04-29 Thread Alexander Popov
Hi, With FreeBSD 7.1 I've started using atacontrol spindown for my secondary disks (i.e. disks that are accessed very infrequently). Everything seemed to work nice until I noticed in my "daily security run output" list of kernel messages that suggests that disks get awaken ever

Re: atacontrol + highpoint raid & hot-swappable bays = reboot?

2009-01-31 Thread Gabe
--- On Fri, 1/30/09, Gabe wrote: > From: Gabe > Subject: atacontrol + highpoint raid & hot-swappable bays = reboot? > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 2:40 AM > Hello list, > > I've come upon a problem I've googled the da

atacontrol + highpoint raid & hot-swappable bays = reboot?

2009-01-30 Thread Gabe
Hello list, I've come upon a problem I've googled the daylights out of, further I've read atacontrol(8) up and down without success. My goal is simple, I have a supermicro 1U with hot-swappable drive bays which hold 2 SATA drives that are connected to a PCI highpoint rocket ra

atacontrol + highpoint raid & hot-swappable bays = reboot?

2009-01-30 Thread Gabe
Hello list, I've come upon a problem I've googled the daylights out of, further I've read atacontrol(8) up and down without success. My goal is simple, I have a supermicro 1U with hot-swappable drive bays which hold 2 SATA drives that are connected to a PCI highpoint rocket ra

Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ar RAID devices are almost always software/BIOS RAID. In this case intel matrix raid is software RAID provided by the system BIOS. The it's always better to use gmirror. not mentioning more flexibility (you do not have to mirror whole drives) ___

Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Paetzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > How can I detect if system has Software or hardware raid? Since in manual > page: > > The atacontrol command can also be used to create purely software RAID > arrays in systems that do NOT have a "

Re: atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Paetzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > How can I detect if system has Software or hardware raid? Since in manual > page: > > The atacontrol command can also be used to create purely software RAID > arrays in systems that do NOT have a "

atacontrol software or hardware raid

2009-01-25 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
How can I detect if system has Software or hardware raid? Since in manual page: The atacontrol command can also be used to create purely software RAID arrays in systems that do NOT have a "real" hardware RAID card such as a Highpoint or Promise card. A common scenario is a

Help with: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6

2009-01-16 Thread ThinkDifferently
I need help with this. I'm trying to create a software RAID1. I followed the instructions in man page http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrol&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE atacontrol(8) atacontrol(8) wrote: > > [snip] > A quick and

Re: atacontrol mode D PIO4 persist across reboots

2008-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
Here's mine: -- #!/bin/sh echo echo 'Setting controllers to DMA mode' atacontrol mode acd1 udma33 -- I had to do that because my DVD-ROM would autodetect UDMA66 or higher and hang. -- Kirk Strauser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: atacontrol mode D PIO4 persist across reboots

2008-03-10 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Philip, Monday, March 10, 2008, 8:46:46 AM, you wrote: > $ atacontrol mode ad2 PIO4 > current mode = PIO4 > My problem is how do I get this to persist across reboot ? putting it into /etc/rc.conf.local should work... -- Best regards, Danielmail

Re: atacontrol mode D PIO4 persist across reboots

2008-03-10 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Have a look at man 4 ata Your answer is probably: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 This sets it for all controllers I only want to set it for ata1 which contains ad2. Thanks for the tip though. ata0: on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: on atapci0 ata1: [ITHREAD] ad0: 19092MB at ata0-

Re: atacontrol mode D PIO4 persist across reboots

2008-03-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=58711964 ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=0 10-30 minutes later, it finally gets through the boot. /etc/fstab: /dev/ad2s1 /X ufs rw 2 2 the problem here is the device needs to be PIO4 $ atacontrol mode ad2 PIO4 current mode = PIO4 My problem is how do I

atacontrol mode D PIO4 persist across reboots

2008-03-10 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
=58711964 ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=0 10-30 minutes later, it finally gets through the boot. /etc/fstab: /dev/ad2s1 /X ufs rw 2 2 the problem here is the device needs to be PIO4 $ atacontrol mode ad2 PIO4 current mode = PIO4 My problem is how do I get this to persist across

RE: atacontrol rebuild on non-identical disks

2007-04-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
ould guess the inside of that server is pretty filthy about now. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Justin Sullivan Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 6:16 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: atacontrol rebuild on non-identical disks

atacontrol rebuild on non-identical disks

2007-04-06 Thread Justin Sullivan
We have a (very) remote FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE system running on Asus RS120 hardware and historically configured with 2 identical SATA drives using atacontrol RAID1 and the system installed on ar0. One of the drives has died, however no identical replacement drive could be easily sourced at the

High disk load +mount/atacontrol/NFS/SMBFS crashes the system

2007-04-01 Thread Alejandro Pulver
When copying from another machine by NFS/SMBFS more than one file at the same time (or when using the disk, like during a filesystem check in the background) often crashes (and the disk light indicator turns off). Running "atacontrol ad0 mode UDMA100" when it was UDMA133 crashed the s

Adaptec 1200A & atacontrol

2006-09-22 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
needed to do with atacontrol to make FreeBSD recognize the array? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: atacontrol status for 3ware?

2006-03-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:57 PM 05/03/2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: How does one do "atacontrol status" for a 3ware card in FreeBSD 6? Why not use the cli tool that you can download from the 3ware website? That is the next step, but I was wondering if it was possible to get basic status info from

Re: atacontrol status for 3ware?

2006-03-05 Thread Francisco Reyes
Mike Tancsa writes: Sorry for the delay.. ever since my HD crashed last weekend.. have been having problems with my home courier-imap setup. :-( On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:40:32 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: How does one do "atacontrol status" for a 3wa

RE: atacontrol status for 3ware?

2006-03-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
what does 3ware tech support say? Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Francisco Reyes >Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:41 PM >To: Free BSD Questions list >Subject: atacontrol status for 3ware? > > >How doe

Re: atacontrol status for 3ware?

2006-03-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:40:32 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >How does one do "atacontrol status" for a 3ware card in FreeBSD 6? > >Tried >atacontrol status 0 (like in previous versions) >atacontrol status twe0 >atacontrol status twed0 Hi, Why n

atacontrol status for 3ware?

2006-03-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
How does one do "atacontrol status" for a 3ware card in FreeBSD 6? Tried atacontrol status 0 (like in previous versions) atacontrol status twe0 atacontrol status twed0 I rebuild an array and saw the controller display messages at the start of the rebuild and it showed "twe0&

NCQ Re: Disk write caching, hw.ata.wc and atacontrol disagree)

2005-12-15 Thread Dieter
>> So hw.ata.wc thinks that the disk write cache is off, >> but atacontrol cap thinks the disk write cache is on? > I remember this is working but there was a reporting problem > in atacontrol. Looks like "atacontrol cap" reports the state of the disk *before* hw.ata.

Re: Disk write caching, hw.ata.wc and atacontrol disagree

2005-12-07 Thread Martin Cracauer
Dieter wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:05:40PM +: > I'm trying to turn off the evil data corrupting on-disk write cache. > > I added hw.ata.wc=0 to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. > > # sysctl hw.ata.wc > hw.ata.wc: 0 > > So far so good. But! atacontr

Disk write caching, hw.ata.wc and atacontrol disagree

2005-12-07 Thread Dieter
I'm trying to turn off the evil data corrupting on-disk write cache. I added hw.ata.wc=0 to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. # sysctl hw.ata.wc hw.ata.wc: 0 So far so good. But! atacontrol cap ad4 says: Feature Support EnableValue Vendor write

Atacontrol software RAID

2005-09-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I've been trying to build a 2 disk mirror with atacontrol on a standard IDE controller (testing in vmware), from an already running 4.11 system. ad0 has the system, ad3 is the new drive. I thought I should be able to mimic the gmirror trick of making a 1 disk degraded mirror o

Re: atacontrol

2005-09-09 Thread Loren M. Lang
gb > of disk. That's a loss of 19gb, i can live with that. > > After login I do a "atacontrol create JBOD ad5 ad6". It now creates ar0 > device with 223gb of space. That's nearly a 100gb of disk loss! > If and how can i prevent the huge 100gb of storage loss? I&#x

Sv: Re: atacontrol

2005-09-08 Thread Göran Nilsson
-slave UDMA133 ad6: 114440MB [232514/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 ar0: 228880MB [29178/255/63] status: READY subdisks: ---Originalmeddelande--- Från: Glenn Dawson Datum: 09/08/05 20:57:45 Till: Göran Nilsson ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Ämne: Re: atacontrol At 11:54 AM 9/8/2005

Re: atacontrol

2005-09-08 Thread Glenn Dawson
i can live with that. After login I do a "atacontrol create JBOD ad5 ad6". It now creates ar0 device with 223gb of space. That's nearly a 100gb of disk loss! If and how can i prevent the huge 100gb of storage loss? If all you're going to do is use "JBOD", why ev

atacontrol

2005-09-08 Thread Göran Nilsson
do a "atacontrol create JBOD ad5 ad6". It now creates ar0 device with 223gb of space. That's nearly a 100gb of disk loss! If and how can i prevent the huge 100gb of storage loss? /Regards dukka ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: atacontrol

2005-08-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/16/05, Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a simple question. Some time ago I was told always to use the > same type of harddisk transfers. Now I have i.e.: > > Master = UDMA100 > Slave = UDMA66 > > Does this mean the first disk really works on UDMA100 or is is delayed > by

atacontrol

2005-08-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I have a simple question. Some time ago I was told always to use the same type of harddisk transfers. Now I have i.e.: Master = UDMA100 Slave = UDMA66 Does this mean the first disk really works on UDMA100 or is is delayed by the second one (as I was told some time ago). Or is the fbsd ata cont

RE: Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol??

2005-04-05 Thread Edgar Martinez
drops the drive for some reason. I usually end up re-mirroring the array on the old "dead" drive and the system will continue on its merry way (last one is over 1 year old since last resync)...hence you see why I am curious if I could just use atacontrol instead of taking the unit offli

Re: Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol??

2005-04-05 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Montag, 4. April 2005 23:29 schrieb Edgar Martinez: > All, > > > > I have a failed member in a RAID1 array and using atacontrol can see that > the status is degraded. I am curious if I can use atacontrol to rebuild the > array if the original array was built using the Promi

Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol??

2005-04-04 Thread Edgar Martinez
All, I have a failed member in a RAID1 array and using atacontrol can see that the status is degraded. I am curious if I can use atacontrol to rebuild the array if the original array was built using the Promise BIOS utility. If I tell atacontrol to rebuild.will it corrupt my data or catch fire

Problems with dump of an atacontrol-ed RAID1 array

2005-01-18 Thread Jonathan Reeder
I have an ICH6 SATA RAID controller that I have set up with atacontrol to behave as a RAID1 array. The array (ar0) consists of ad4 and ad6. Last night I started a dump like so: # dump -0Luaf /dev/da0s1 / to *hopefully* dump my root filesystem (ar0s1a) to a usb storage device. Now here is where

Re: atacontrol during boot ?

2005-01-03 Thread jason henson
On 01/03/05 14:28:02, Hexren wrote: I need to change the mode of ata channel 1 to UDMA33. When the system is up I use "atacontrol mode 1 UDMA33 UDMA33" for that. How can I do this during boot, before mounting HDDs (The reason for all this is, that one of my HDDs only likes UDMA33)? Tha

atacontrol during boot ?

2005-01-03 Thread Hexren
I need to change the mode of ata channel 1 to UDMA33. When the system is up I use "atacontrol mode 1 UDMA33 UDMA33" for that. How can I do this during boot, before mounting HDDs (The reason for all this is, that one of my HDDs only likes UDMA33)? Tha

RE: atacontrol and SATA RAID

2004-10-29 Thread Putinas Piliponis
atacontrol addspare ar0 ad6 should do the trick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giovanni P. Tirloni Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: atacontrol and SATA RAID Giovanni P

Re: atacontrol and SATA RAID

2004-10-29 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote: Hi, I've a Intel SE7210TP1 motherboard with Adaptec HostRAID and I've created a RAID1 array with 2 SATA disks using the following command: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6 The system installed on /dev/ar0 just fine and I played a bit with atacontrol det

atacontrol and SATA RAID

2004-10-28 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Hi, I've a Intel SE7210TP1 motherboard with Adaptec HostRAID and I've created a RAID1 array with 2 SATA disks using the following command: atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6 The system installed on /dev/ar0 just fine and I played a bit with atacontrol detaching and attaching

atacontrol addspare missing in -stable

2004-03-19 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hi all, how do I rebuild a degraded RADI1 in -stable? I have a HighPoint 372 Controller and yesterday had one drive failed (wich it does regularly and comes back fine after reboot). "atacontrol status ar0" reported only one disk (ad4) and degraded (of course). In -current with a

Problems with atacontrol and Hightpoint 730 raid Hardware. 5.2 release.

2004-03-11 Thread Alberto (WarfoX) De Boni
nnel 2: Master: ad4 ATA/ATAPI rev 7 Slave: no device present ATA channel 3: Master: ad6 ATA/ATAPI rev 7 Slave: no device present arc# atacontrol status ar0 ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY I've installed *BSD successfully without any flaws, rebooted, and

atacontrol software raid

2004-02-06 Thread dave
Hello, Trying to help a friend set up a system for raid. He's got two 4 gb drives he'd like to mirror. And we were thinking atacontrol, googled for a site on this, and didn't find anything. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. ___ [

RE: atacontrol weirdness: RAID 1 array is shown to be degraded but bothdisks are

2004-02-06 Thread Lord Sith
From: Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: atacontrol weirdness: RAID 1 array is shown to be degraded but bothdisks are up Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 19:30:29 +0100 The 4.9 box has got onboard

atacontrol weirdness: RAID 1 array is shown to be degraded but both disks are up

2004-02-06 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
The 4.9 box has got onboard Promise RAID which so far has worked just fine. However, today I got a report about a degraded disk array so I went to check and found something rather odd: $ atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: no device present Slave: no device present ATA

`atacontrol enclosure` does not work (ioctl(ATAENCSTAT): Device not configured)

2003-10-20 Thread Constantine
Hello. It just does not seem to work. How do I fix that? cnst# whoami root cnst# atacontrol enclosure 0 0 atacontrol: ioctl(ATAENCSTAT): Device not configured cnst# uname -r 4.8-RELEASE Cheers, Constantine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-15T04:28:58Z, Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why to this file and not to /etc/sysctl.conf? I have no monitor on that > box, so I want to make sure it is more likely to work after the > reboot. :-) That's a read-only sysctl knob, so you can't adjust it once the system has boo

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-15 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:46 am, Mike Maltese wrote: > > acd0: DVDROM at ata1-master UDMA66 > > I stand corrected, although I maintain that no optical drive is > capable of that kind of throughput. =) I was kinda wondering if he'd > been duped on the specs of the drive. > Neither are the HD

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-15 Thread Mike Maltese
> acd0: DVDROM at ata1-master UDMA66 I stand corrected, although I maintain that no optical drive is capable of that kind of throughput. =) I was kinda wondering if he'd been duped on the specs of the drive. Thanks, Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 10:04 pm, Mike Maltese wrote: > > Why to this file and not to /etc/sysctl.conf? I have no monitor on > > that box, so I want to make sure it is more likely to work after > > the reboot. > > > :-) > > I can't remember exactly why, but trust me, it will work. > > > But why

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Julien Gabel
>> Add the following to /boot/loader.conf: >> hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" > Why to this file and not to /etc/sysctl.conf? I have no monitor on that > box, so I want to make sure it is more likely to work after the reboot. loader.conf(5) is the system bootstrap configuration file (third step) and is read

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Maltese
> Why to this file and not to /etc/sysctl.conf? I have no monitor on that > box, so I want to make sure it is more likely to work after the reboot. :-) I can't remember exactly why, but trust me, it will work. > But why does it sets it to UDMA33, but not to UDMA66? Have you actually tried it ye

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Constantine
On 2003-10-15 00:20, Mike Maltese wrote: Second, where do I have to indicate that my DVD-ROM supports UDMA66? I assume that after saying "atacontrol mode 1 udma66 udma66", the settings are going to be vanished the next reboot. Add the following to /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.at

Re: atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Maltese
> Second, where do I have to indicate that my DVD-ROM supports UDMA66? I > assume that after saying "atacontrol mode 1 udma66 udma66", the settings > are going to be vanished the next reboot. Add the following to /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" Reboot.

atacontrol(8)

2003-10-14 Thread Constantine
Hello, I have a few questions about atacontrol. First, why the option 'enclosure' does not seem to work? << cnst# atacontrol enclosure 0 0 atacontrol: ioctl(ATAENCSTAT): Device not configured >> Second, where do I have to indicate that my DVD-ROM supports UDMA66? I as

Re: atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:35 PM 21/09/2003, Micheal Patterson wrote: > > cd /dev > sh MAKEDEV ata > > then try atacontrol. > > ---Mike Tried that as well.. It reports: ata - no such device name Do you have device ata in your kernel ? As well do you have ata) mknod ata

Re: atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Mike Tancsa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micheal Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 4:10 PM Subject: Re: atacontrol > > cd /dev > sh MAKEDEV ata > > the

Re: atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
cd /dev sh MAKEDEV ata then try atacontrol. ---Mike At 11:56 AM 21/09/2003, Micheal Patterson wrote: Has anyone ever run across this error when trying to run atacontrol? "$:> atacontrol list atacontrol: control device not found: No such file or directory" I can't locat

Re: atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:39 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Wrong error for that to be the problem. > Maybe /dev/ata is missing? Well, if run as a non-root user, I get the same error with "permission denied" appended on the very end of it. I assumed he merely did not copy the entire line. T

Re: atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Micheal Patterson
-- Micheal Patterson Network Administration Cancer Care Network 405-917-0600 - Original Message - From: "Todd Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micheal Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:57 AM

Re: atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Todd Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:56 am, Micheal Patterson wrote: > > Has anyone ever run across this error when trying to run atacontrol? > > > > "$:> atacontrol list > > atacontrol: control device not found: No su

Re: atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Todd Stephens
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:56 am, Micheal Patterson wrote: > Has anyone ever run across this error when trying to run atacontrol? > > "$:> atacontrol list > atacontrol: control device not found: No such file or directory" > atacontrol has to be run as root. -- T

atacontrol

2003-09-21 Thread Micheal Patterson
Has anyone ever run across this error when trying to run atacontrol? "$:> atacontrol list atacontrol: control device not found: No such file or directory" I can't locate much information on the command itself other than the man pages and they don't indicate which dev

atacontrol raid0 interleave?

2003-08-21 Thread Evren Yurtesen
What is the suggested interleave numbers? how to calculate the best value? Evren ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RAID with atacontrol

2003-07-22 Thread Jacob Vennervald Madsen
Hi Does anybody know if it's possible to create a RAID1 array on disks with data on them without destroying the data on them? My reason for doing this is that I have to disks that I run in an existing Promise Fasttrack100 RAID1 array, but I want to use the RAID controller in another machine. Then

Re: Questions about bootable raid 1 using atacontrol.

2003-06-25 Thread Joshua Oreman
> I think Vinum or RAIDframe would be better if you want software RAID. > > Both support booting from the RAID. > > I don't think RAIDframe is supported in Stable, is it? > > Is there a particular advantage to Vinum over the atacontrol stuff? It's more extensi

Re: Questions about bootable raid 1 using atacontrol.

2003-06-25 Thread George Hartzell
think RAIDframe is supported in Stable, is it? Is there a particular advantage to Vinum over the atacontrol stuff? g. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Questions about bootable raid 1 using atacontrol.

2003-06-25 Thread Joshua Oreman
it together from spare parts is. > > So, I'm shying away from hardware raids, and even the pseudo-hardware > raids. > > I'd like to just stuff two ata drives in there and use atacontrol to > set them up. > > I gather that I can't just cram a second disk in

Questions about bootable raid 1 using atacontrol.

2003-06-25 Thread George Hartzell
aids. I'd like to just stuff two ata drives in there and use atacontrol to set them up. I gather that I can't just cram a second disk into the existing system, rather I'll have to do dumps to somewhere, set up a raid, disklabel/newfs, then restore the dumps onto the raid. Is that a

Re: PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE / 4.8-RC2)

2003-03-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 29 March 2003 at 10:45:43 +, james wrote: > Hi Greg > > Thanks for your response! > >> #6 0xc0220332 in dsioctl (dev=0xc1383200, cmd=0x8004646d, data=0xcb307d58 "\001", >> flags=0x2, sspp=0xc1328568) >> at ../../kern/subr_diskslice.c:356 >> #7 0xc021fd5b in diskioctl (dev=0x

Re: PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE / 4.8-RC2)

2003-03-29 Thread james
Hi Greg Thanks for your response! > #6 0xc0220332 in dsioctl (dev=0xc1383200, cmd=0x8004646d, data=0xcb307d58 "\001", > flags=0x2, sspp=0xc1328568) > at ../../kern/subr_diskslice.c:356 > #7 0xc021fd5b in diskioctl (dev=0xc1383200, cmd=0x8004646d, data=0xcb307d58 "\001", > fflag=0x2, p=0x

Re: PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE / 4.8-RC2)

2003-03-28 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
:18:43 +, james wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I am trying to configure hotswap-raid and vinum on my machine, and have found I >>> can cause the kernel to panic at will. >>> >>> Ideally I would like to be able to stop a plex, use atacontrol attach/detac

Re: PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE / 4.8-RC2)

2003-03-28 Thread james
.p1 3, atacontrol detach 1 (drive b) 4, atacontrol attach 1 - this WORKS, doesn't panic like 5.0-STABLE 5, vinum start volume.p1 As before, I have a debug kernel and core dump. I can't seem to configure my mailer to not wrap lines, so I've posted all relevant information to http://

Re: PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE)

2003-03-27 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
gt; > Ideally I would like to be able to stop a plex, use atacontrol attach/detach to > replace the disk, and rebuild the plex. Would this work in theory? Apparently. There was a time when people claimed that ATA drives couldn't be hot swapped, but that seems to be incorrect nowadays

PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE)

2003-03-27 Thread james
Hi I am trying to configure hotswap-raid and vinum on my machine, and have found I can cause the kernel to panic at will. Ideally I would like to be able to stop a plex, use atacontrol attach/detach to replace the disk, and rebuild the plex. Would this work in theory? I am using atacontrol to

Re: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Pete wrote: [ ... ] The RAID-1 volume I'm using right now is with two drives attached to a non-RAID card with a Promise chipset. Does it work if you move the two drives to another machine without a Promise, Highpoint, or other RAID controller card or MB chipset...? Hardware based RAID is likely t

Re: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?

2003-03-10 Thread Pete
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote: > The ATA RAID support via atacontrol apparently requires hardware RAID > controllers like the Promise or Highpoint devices. I don't think this is right. The RAID-1 volume I'm using right now is with two drives attached to a non-

Vinum root file systems (was: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?)

2003-03-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 9 March 2003 at 20:15:32 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Pete wrote: > > Generally, one cannot boot from a vinum based-device, unless you are > only doing RAID-1 mirroring. You can have a Vinum root file system as long as at least one plex is concatenated from a single subdisk. > I'm fam

Re: Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?

2003-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Pete wrote: [ ... ] I thought Vinum was FreeBSD's RAID system. If you wanted to do software RAID with FreeBSD, you needed to use Vinum. Now I find this out. Does that ATA subsystem have RAID support built in? (Since atacontrol just seems to control the ATA devices...) If this is so, w

Difference between Vinum and atacontrol RAID?

2003-03-09 Thread Pete
A couple days ago, I asked on the -hackers list about a problem I was having with Vinum and my Promise-based controllers. Søren replied with how to do this by using atacontrol to build the volume. No Vinum seems to be required. I thought Vinum was FreeBSD's RAID system. If you wanted

Fixing degraded atacontrol based software RAID?

2003-01-28 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I have a machine running atacontrol based software RAID in which one of the disks recently failed (Maxtor, not IBM for those who want to know). Now I'm wondering how I should go about fixing this. atacontrol seems to lack a command to fix broken software only arrays. I suppose I coul

atacontrol based software only RAID

2002-07-15 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, after messing around with atacontrol software RAID a bit I became quite confident that this can't be any worse than the el cheapo IDE RAID (Highpoint, Promise, CMD) that we commonly use around here and figured I could as well ditch the controllers and use the PCI slots for something