Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/24/06, Andreas Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:23:00AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good Many many years ago I bought a HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller. Thought its a good deal because it was

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 24 August 2006 01:16, Nikolas Britton wrote: Stay away from Adaptec and Promise because they don't support FreeBSD. I would recommend Areca and/or HighPoint because they do officially support FreeBSD. 3Ware does support FreeBSD but I don't have experience with their cards so I

Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

2006-08-24 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:51:52PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:07:45PM +0300, Todorov @ Paladin wrote: Also - why portupgrade is not always aware of previously chosen options for a port build? It depends. If options are OPTIONS (in the

Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml

2006-08-24 Thread Ceri Davies
[ Forwarded from cvs-doc ] On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: keramida2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC FreeBSD doc repository Modified files: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml Log: Expand the section `Setting a Faster Serial

source tree borked for 6.1-stable ?

2006-08-24 Thread Nikolay Kalev
/usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_fw2.c:37:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_forward.c:33:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_input.c:64:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_output.c:64:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No

Re: GIANT in arcmsr(4)

2006-08-24 Thread GreenX
Hi, I face to a choice - Areca ARC-1110 vs. 3ware 9550SX-4LP. Whether soon there will be an amendment to the arc driver? BR, GReenX. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe,

gdb problem with 6.1-RELEASE-p3

2006-08-24 Thread Jim Segrave
I was trying to debug a threaded application on my machine (Sony Vaio laptop, i386 architecture) I'm running 6.1-RELEASE-p3 as downgrade from RELENG_6 (after upgrading 5.4-5.5) When I invoke gdb on a threaded application, I get the following: Script started on Thu Aug 24 13:32:12 2006 [EMAIL

Re: Junk Pointer Error

2006-08-24 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chuck, Am 23.08.2006 um 21:25 schrieb Chuck Swiger: Sure your hardware is OK? Try running memtest86 or a hardware diagnostic from your vendor, and double-check your fans PSU... Yes, I'm sure! Tried it today on my Laptop - same error! I

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/24/06, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 01:16, Nikolas Britton wrote: Stay away from Adaptec and Promise because they don't support FreeBSD. I would recommend Areca and/or HighPoint because they do officially support FreeBSD. 3Ware does support FreeBSD

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Andreas Klemm wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:23:00AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good Many many years ago I bought a HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller. Thought its a good deal because it was cheap. Thought, an ATA interface

[AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Laurent C
Hello all, I can't get my athlon x2 processor working at 100% on cpu-intensive apps. I've made some tests with john --test and transcode, wich are both multithreaded apps. For example if I launch transcode it takes between 50% and 55% cpu (on top), and if I launch a second transcode session on

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: I agree. PCIe 8x is a faster bus and it's typically connected directly to the MCH (north bridge) unlike PCI-X which is stuck on the ICH (south bridge). This would be for a Northbridge-based system (ie. Intel). For AMD-based

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 01:39:43AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: had nothing but problems with my Promise card. To make matters worse Promise doesn't support FreeBSD... No drivers, No docs, Nothing. eh??? You don't follow FreeBSD very carefully. Promise sends full docs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 24 August 2006 13:09, Laurent C wrote: Hello all, I can't get my athlon x2 processor working at 100% on cpu-intensive apps. I've made some tests with john --test and transcode, wich are both multithreaded apps. For example if I launch transcode it takes between 50% and 55% cpu

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:09:35PM +0200, Laurent C wrote: Hello all, I can't get my athlon x2 processor working at 100% on cpu-intensive apps. I've made some tests with john --test and transcode, wich are both multithreaded apps. For example if I launch transcode it takes between 50% and

Re: source tree borked for 6.1-stable ?

2006-08-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:12:53PM +0400, Nikolay Kalev wrote: /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_fw2.c:37:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_forward.c:33:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_input.c:64:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or

Re: source tree borked for 6.1-stable ?

2006-08-24 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:12:53PM +0400, Nikolay Kalev wrote: /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_fw2.c:37:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_forward.c:33:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or directory [

Re: source tree borked for 6.1-stable ?

2006-08-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:17:51PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:12:53PM +0400, Nikolay Kalev wrote: /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_fw2.c:37:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_forward.c:33:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such

Re: source tree borked for 6.1-stable ?

2006-08-24 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:17:51PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:12:53PM +0400, Nikolay Kalev wrote: /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_fw2.c:37:23: opt_ip6fw.h: No such file or directory

Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml

2006-08-24 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote: [ Forwarded from cvs-doc ] On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: keramida2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC FreeBSD doc repository Modified files: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms

Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml

2006-08-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:20:47PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote: [ Forwarded from cvs-doc ] On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: keramida2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC FreeBSD doc repository

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Christian Walther
Hi there, On 24/08/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] How do you know the applications are running with two threads? Presumably you need to specify the amount of parallelism. Kris To make matters worse you can't even tell if an application running with several threads uses

Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml

2006-08-24 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 24 August 2006 15:42, Ceri Davies wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:20:47PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote: [ Forwarded from cvs-doc ] On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: keramida

Re: [AMD64-SMP] I can't get my cpus working at 100%

2006-08-24 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, August 24, 2006 2:10 pm, Christian Walther wrote: On 24/08/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] How do you know the applications are running with two threads? Presumably you need to specify the amount of parallelism. To make matters worse you can't even tell if an

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 25 August 2006 01:52, Nikolas Britton wrote: I believe Promise *do* support FreeBSD quite a bit. Maybe as an after thought. I also don't see any link on their site for FreeBSD support, lets check google: shrugs cvs log ata-chipset.c.. revision 1.21

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 01:52, Nikolas Britton wrote: I believe Promise *do* support FreeBSD quite a bit. Maybe as an after thought. I also don't see any link on their site for FreeBSD support, lets check google: shrugs cvs log ata-chipset.c..

Re: GIANT in arcmsr(4)

2006-08-24 Thread erich
Dear BR, GReenX., I have this last driver on my lab for areca testing procedure. I promised that the driver sould passed testing on Power Mac and SPARC machine. But I can not install FreeBSD 6.0 on my Power Mac G5 system till now. Its coding style not yet all change into unix style. This code