Re: Virtual pseudo-device 'vwire()' anyone?

2009-12-24 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
> Have you ever looked at > http://vde.sourceforge.net/ > ? Thanks Chris for your hint, which triggered me to take a look at the VDE project on Sourceforge. Before posting, I was actually reading the documentation WIki of Virtual Square (V^2) at http://wiki.virtualsquare.org . Currently, V^2 and

Re: help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread Paul M
Here we're talking about 2 separate cases, electrical and mechanical. In electrical componentry, it's power up/power down that compromises the reliability of a part (circuit). This is primarily due to heat - it's the temperature cycling in the circuit components thats the bad guy. In Mechanica

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-24 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:02:58PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:28:22AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > >>Jacob Meuser wrote: > >>>are you saying outputs.line-in_sense doesn't change when you plug > >>>something into the line-in jack? > >>> > >>Sorr

Re: help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:16:28AM +1300, Paul M said that > I wouldn't think that spinning up frequently would shorten > it's life any more than if it stayed spinning. It may be very > irritating from a performance point of view though. i am no hard disk expert, but i was taught at school th

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:28:22AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:57:35PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: The direction part is clear except for the input-vr0, input-vr50, input-vr80. For w

Re: help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:16 +1300, "Paul M" wrote: [snip] > Try a different usb enclosure. Some Seagate FreeAgent enclosures do this. Seagate forums have lots of complaints about it. Research before buying another enclosure. I purchased a FreeAgent a few years ago before this issue was well-know

Re: help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread bofh
Small bug, potential race condition. Also may not be accurate when load is high. Change sleep 9 recommended :) :P -Tai On 12/24/09, frantisek holop wrote: > hi there, > > i have a usb external disk that spins down grotesquely > soon, 10s of inactivity sends it sleeping. hearing the > disk

Re: help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread Paul M
I wouldn't think that spinning up frequently would shorten it's life any more than if it stayed spinning. It may be very irritating from a performance point of view though. I would think that bouncing the head round doing frequent reads/writes would be much more destructive. If one were to re-re

Re: Has anyone a dual head monitor Matrox G450 G550 or G650 graphics card working with OpenBSD 4.6?

2009-12-24 Thread Robert
Steve Shockley wrote: I'm pretty sure the Matrox cards do dual-head without the HAL, but the screens have to be the same resolution and you don't get any 3D features. I had a G450 in use somewhen around 4.1; unfortunately I don't have the xorg.conf anymore. As far as I remember I had to compil

Re: disklabel - cylinder rounding

2009-12-24 Thread Robert
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:34:57 +0100 frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:50:24PM +0100, Robert said that > > Let me rephrase and remove disklabel from the question: > > What would break if slices don't start on a cylinder boundary? > > probably nothing if you will use the slic

Re: help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread Robert
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:46:47 +0100 frantisek holop wrote: > hi there, > > i have a usb external disk that spins down grotesquely > soon, 10s of inactivity sends it sleeping. hearing the > disk spin up every time makes me think how soon it will > die if i keep this up for long. > > as atactl is

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-24 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:28:22AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:57:35PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: > >>Jacob Meuser wrote: > The direction part is clear except for the input-vr0, input-vr50, > input-vr80. > For what reason would I pick

Re: disklabel - cylinder rounding

2009-12-24 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:50:24PM +0100, Robert said that > Let me rephrase and remove disklabel from the question: > What would break if slices don't start on a cylinder boundary? probably nothing if you will use the slices only exclusively with openbsd. other systems might make different

Re: splassert: vwakeup: and friends

2009-12-24 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:05:57PM +0100, frantisek holop said that > background: > i am trying to run an e2fsck on an 120G ext2 partition on that > usb external disk and it just stops reading from the disk at > random positions. for example it gets up to 30% of pass 1, > then it just stops.

help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i have a usb external disk that spins down grotesquely soon, 10s of inactivity sends it sleeping. hearing the disk spin up every time makes me think how soon it will die if i keep this up for long. as atactl is not working for external ata disks used through the scsi layer, i was wonde

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Re: cannot reach internal network from gateway (and vice-versa)

2009-12-24 Thread Ross Davis
On 12/22/09 4:01 AM, Stijn wrote: > Ross Davis wrote: >> I am almost certainly doing something really stupid so hopefully someone >> can point out where the hole in my brain lies. >> >> I have a built a firewall/gateway from using OpenBSD 4.6. The external >> interface is 192.168.5.250 which is att

Re: Azalia and ac3

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Bennett
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 06:57:35PM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: Jacob Meuser wrote: The direction part is clear except for the input-vr0, input-vr50, input-vr80. For what reason would I pick each of these? Is this used to reduce excessively loud inputs? to b

Re: WAY OT: Have you hugged your local OpenBSD dev lately?

2009-12-24 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:39:33 +1300 Paul M wrote: > On 15/12/2009, at 7:10 AM, Bob Beck wrote: > > >> | People are at the core motivated by their own self-interest. Anyone > >> | who says they aren't is selling something. > >> > >> Yes, they're selling hilarity. It's The Onion, after all. > > >

Re: Has anyone a dual head monitor Matrox G450 G550 or G650 graphics card working with OpenBSD 4.6?

2009-12-24 Thread Steve Shockley
On 12/23/2009 4:01 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Has anyone a dual head monitor Matrox G450 G550 or G650 graphics card working with OpenBSD 4.6? Probably not. From mga(4): I'm pretty sure the Matrox cards do dual-head without the HAL, but the screens have to be the same resolution and you

Re: Virtual pseudo-device 'vwire()' anyone?

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Dukes
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 01:47:51PM +0400, Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: > Recently, developers added the pseudo-device vether(4). Such virtual > switch ports can be member of bridges. An additional pseudo-device > 'vwire' would come in handy to interconnect two or more switches in a > virtualized enviro

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Virtual pseudo-device 'vwire()' anyone?

2009-12-24 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
Recently, developers added the pseudo-device vether(4). Such virtual switch ports can be member of bridges. An additional pseudo-device 'vwire' would come in handy to interconnect two or more switches in a virtualized environment, without necessarily bridging to a physical switch port as well. In a

Re: Web Browsers

2009-12-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:39 PM, nixlists wrote: > On 12/20/09, Robert Bronsdon wrote: >> Google are clearly clever enough to know that upsetting the 'tin-foiled' >> [...] > > Google also wants the browser to be > used by businesses - so there will be many features similar to those > IE has in t