Re: [luau] Need a Help for Samba

2003-12-04 Thread Humuhumunukunukuapuaa
Thank you very much for your advice. I had never realized that the browsing mechanism on Windows is so much complicated until I read the manual and research at this time. Anyway, finally, I could solve the problem. I noticed that problem always happens when my Linux is Master browser. So, I se

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Ryan Gordon Sr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vince Hoang wrote: | 3ware controller would be ideal if we stuck with an ATA solution. | | The others are not really hardware RAID providers at all. I guess that means the $20 figure jumps up to >$60 to do that. Also, the card looks alot bigger and

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:45:48AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > R.Scott Belford wrote: > >With time, though, enough money will be gathered to buy > >a matching larger drive ($177), and hopefully more. When > >that time comes we can move to faster drives as Vince has > >suggested. The 160gb drive h

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:32:54AM -1000, Thomas Ryan Gordon Sr wrote: > Does videl have an available PCI slot? If we still got the > low-end 60G (and it still fits) and spent $20 on a ATA RAID > controller we could stop doing the software RAID thing > and improve performance and reduce CPU usage.

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread Brian Chee
Just in case there are folks on this list with moneythe last Storage Area Network Shootout I did for Infoworld had HP/Compaq, EMC and IBM. All three were looking at having serialATA based JBOD (disk arrays) cases with 2gb/sec Fiber Channel interfaces on them. This should dramatically drop the c

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread Warren Togami
R.Scott Belford wrote: This was my motivation in buying a larger drive. If installed now, it solves redundancy issues but is not a true permanent solution. Software raid with different sized drives has a few more steps, I guess, with formatting, but this is not a big deal, is it? With time

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread Warren Togami
Brian Chee wrote: Beware, I've just been burned by the Promise ATA/133 RAID controller...it will only rebuild the array if you give a new drive of identical geometryunlike SCSI based raid which only need a similar or larger sized drive. I'm exploring 3ware's offerings and am enthusiastic ab

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread R.Scott Belford
On Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at 09:17 AM, Vince Hoang wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:31:44PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: Is priority one to replace the failed drive for this array? If so, what size? I can order it tomorrow. I am assuming that it needs to match the other 120gb drive I d

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread Brian Chee
Beware, I've just been burned by the Promise ATA/133 RAID controller...it will only rebuild the array if you give a new drive of identical geometryunlike SCSI based raid which only need a similar or larger sized drive. I'm exploring 3ware's offerings and am enthusiastic about their SATA based

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread Thomas Ryan Gordon Sr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 R.Scott Belford wrote: | I am saddened Don't be sad, I was just learning that the RAID is in-fact software-based and all 160 gigs will be usable. The more hard-drives, the merrier. But back to the tech stuff. I just had a thought about videl but

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread R.Scott Belford
On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 01:16 AM, Warren Togami wrote: 160GB 7200rpm 8MB cache 60GB 7200rpm 2MB cache Unfortunately this means that Videl will still be limited in performance to the 2MB cache of the smaller disk. While the 60GB system drive portion can be made redundant across bot

Re: [luau] DNS

2003-12-04 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:44:54PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The @ is just a stand in for the zone name of the file. For example if the > file is db.foo.com and the /etc/named.conf file has the entry @ is shorthand for the origin, which defaults to the name of the zone specified in named

Re: [luau] RoadRunner or EarthLink?

2003-12-04 Thread Warren Togami
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 22:19, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: > A friend was asking whether to subscribe RoadRunner or EarthLink. I > remember this subject was discussed before. Does anyone care to > comment? Thanks. Both locally go through Oceanic's lines, and I believe are installed by the sa

Re: [luau] videl.ics.hawaii.edu disk failure - Your Help Needed

2003-12-04 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 23:38, Thomas Ryan Gordon Sr wrote: > >> We should get another 60GB drive to mirror the other 60GB drive. > >> Preferably of the same model so they both run with similar speed and > >> access times. The exact model is $99 at local CompUSA, but I'm looking > >> for better deal