Re: [osol-discuss] Hardware Concern

2011-07-28 Thread Brandon High
dors use which the same components as well. Illumos will hopefully be better about adding more hardware support. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Can not install from external usb cd drive?

2011-05-10 Thread Brandon High
ere was a second USB drive plugged in. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Building a storage server, need some advice

2011-04-27 Thread Brandon High
you can simply add two more drives rather than enough to make up an additional vdev. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Need driver for SATA 6 gbps?

2011-04-10 Thread Brandon High
; the 6 gbps card without drivers? You will need drivers. The Marvell SATA chips have been supported for a while in the base OS. Some SAS 6G cards as well. Someone posted a really nice comparison of supported cards and bus speeds a while back, it may be worth looking for. -B -- Brandon High : bh..

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread Brandon High
river. You may need to add the card to /etc/driver_aliases? -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble detecting Seagate LP 2TB drives

2010-06-26 Thread Brandon High
For those wanting more details, it's in a flag day from 2009/9/11: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/2008091102 FreeNAS worked fine with the system and drives, which made for a nice fallback plan. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freak

Re: [osol-discuss] Trouble detecting Seagate LP 2TB drives

2010-06-25 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Brandon High wrote: > I recently installed a Seagate LP drive in an Atom ICH7 based system. The > drive is showing up dmesg but not available in format. Is this a known > problem? Is there a work around for it? I just found an older thread where

[osol-discuss] Trouble detecting Seagate LP 2TB drives

2010-06-25 Thread Brandon High
I recently installed a Seagate LP drive in an Atom ICH7 based system. The drive is showing up dmesg but not available in format. Is this a known problem? Is there a work around for it? -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] SNV_142 Test DVD & Blastwave's AMP stack

2010-06-21 Thread Brandon High
able to the older BE. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SNV_142 Test DVD & Blastwave's AMP stack

2010-06-21 Thread Brandon High
l OpenSolaris release. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Upgrade to snv_134 dev branch errors

2010-06-05 Thread Brandon High
Check the snv134 release notes. The warnings you saw are mentioned in them. If you're doing a clean install, you may want to grab the b134 install CD and start with that rather than upgrade from 111. Sent from my Nexus One. On Jun 5, 2010 10:49 PM, "Matt Connolly" wrote: > I've just done a clea

[osol-discuss] Zones with other virtualization techs on the same host

2010-06-05 Thread Brandon High
Is it possible to use zones and xen or virtual box simultaneously on the same host? Sent from my Nexus One. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] AHCI errors

2010-06-04 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Bruno Damour wrote: > I scrubbed all my zfs pools, no problem detected. Everything seems to be > working. > > Any idea of what is happening ? Check your cabling. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___

Re: [osol-discuss] How to set NFS permissions

2010-06-04 Thread Brandon High
can set access via the sharenfs property. For instance, # zfs set sharenfs=...@192.168.1.0/24 foo will allow read/write access to the 192.168.1.0 subnet. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] install on and boot from 3ware 9650 raid controller

2010-05-30 Thread Brandon High
higher), AMD SB600 (or higher) or a Marvell 88SE912x based card. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] install on and boot from 3ware 9650 raid controller

2010-05-30 Thread Brandon High
ment after installing the driver. # beadm mount /c .. install driver .. # bootadm update-archive -R /c > How to install it...? Im out of ideas.. The best bet is to use b134 from the /dev repository. It has a lot of fixes, as well as the 3ware drivers. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-05-30 Thread Brandon High
thing, I supposed it depends on what your requirements are. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Dev repository last catalog update is March 6, 2010?

2010-05-30 Thread Brandon High
f a mirrored root is missing) but I haven not encountered any other major bugs. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] RAMDISK performance

2010-05-25 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Ed Pate wrote: > Does "TestPool" use dedup?  If so, turn it off and try again. Or compression. It turns out that /dev/zero compresses extremely well. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ openso

[osol-discuss] Errors from USB flash drives used for booting.

2010-05-18 Thread Brandon High
o problem. Any idea on what's causing it? I suspect it's just that the flash is too slow and something is timing out. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 snv_138 Apr. 15, 2010

2010-04-30 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Oh look ... snv_138 appears quite suddenly out of nowhere .. cool. Any idea when it'll be on http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ ? -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensola

[osol-discuss] pkg property pursue-latest

2010-03-29 Thread Brandon High
Is there any documentation about what the pursue-latest property for pkg does? I've noticed that it's set by default, but I can't find a description of what it does. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discu

[osol-discuss] b132 bug list?

2010-02-05 Thread Brandon High
Is there a list of bugs in b132? I'd like to know if the sharesmb name= bug has been fixed before upgrading. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Need to find files with in name. How?

2010-02-03 Thread Brandon High
clients as well as Windows, then formD is a better choice. This is just what I've gleaned from searching and reading up myself. I'm not sure what formKC or formKD do differently. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com When in doubt, use brute force. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Need to find files with in name. How?

2010-02-02 Thread Brandon High
is volume primarily shared out to Windows or Mac clients via CIFS, you may want to set the 'casesensitivity' and 'normalization' properties as well. Both of these can only be set when the filesystem is created, too. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com Suspicion Breeds Confi

[osol-discuss] Fan control for ASUS M2N-LR (nForce 570)

2009-11-19 Thread Brandon High
t the fan controls working, or a configuration setting that needs to be changed? -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com Suspicion Breeds Confidence ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Updating to a specific branch revision

2009-09-26 Thread Brandon High
BE with the new packages. I can create a new package with: # beadm create snv_118@"$(date)" but how do I tell pkg to update the new BE? A command like: # pkg install ent...@0.5.11-118 will update the current BE, which is not what I want. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com A

[osol-discuss] Host becomes unreachable during high network utilization

2009-08-17 Thread Brandon High
driver, but I was hoping Sun had fixed the problem by now. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] mutex_lock_queue

2008-05-28 Thread Brandon High
6 s10s_u3wos_10 SPARC > Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. > Use is subject to license terms. > Assembled 14 November 2006 > > /etc >uname -a > SunOS sunqz04 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 This forum is for OpenSolaris. It is not a

Re: [osol-discuss] Help building a File server

2008-05-19 Thread Brandon High
go. Since it uses the ATA controller, there's nothing special to do, it just looks like an hard disk. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186038 -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche ___

Re: [osol-discuss] NAS - which OS version,

2008-05-14 Thread Brandon High
, which gave it an eSATA port and a 5th internal SATA port, but I don't think that's what you'd want. > Also, how were you able to reach the conclusion that the 690G chipset is > fully supported? There have been a number of success stories posted by people using the 690G. -B

Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected

2008-04-24 Thread Brandon High
You could use Partition Magic or similar software to shrink your existing NTFS partition, then add a new Solaris UFS partition. I'm not sure if there's a way to non-destructively shrink a BSD UFS partition. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the e

Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected

2008-04-23 Thread Brandon High
thing no Change I misunderstood you. I thought that Belenix had worked for you. OpenSolaris supports the FAT file system, but not NTFS. It also supports UFS, but I think Solaris's UFS is different than BSD's UFS2 and may not be able to read it. What filesystem is on your drives currently?

Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected

2008-04-23 Thread Brandon High
igs of it Locked using an old windows Folder lock program? If you weren't able to mount the file systems, then it's unlikely that Folder Lock was the problem. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected

2008-04-22 Thread Brandon High
tool will tell you for certain. If it doesn't work in legacy mode, it's probably not going to work. If you want to use the drives with OpenSolaris you'll have to use a PCI controller. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The g

Re: [osol-discuss] NAS - which OS version, and what hardware is supported?

2008-04-15 Thread Brandon High
A-MV8 - 8 ports, about $100 online. http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/DAC-SATA-MV8.cfm > I was hoping that the AMD 780G chipset would be supported, but according to > this forum-posting Look at a 690G based board - fully supported, and has 6x SATA connectors. -B --

Re: [osol-discuss] Mysql's Innodb immensely slow on ZFS

2008-04-14 Thread Brandon High
it's not reacting quickly enough to the increase in memory use. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Mysql's Innodb immensely slow on ZFS

2008-04-11 Thread Brandon High
itten there will use physical memory, or page out if required. Also, could you sort the output by memory usage? "prstat -s rss" and "prstat -s size" will sort by resident size or total image size. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of

Re: [osol-discuss] Mysql's Innodb immensely slow on ZFS

2008-04-11 Thread Brandon High
; use > 2GB of memory. Again heavy disk trashing, and I > didn't had the impression that the arc cache did shrink enough > to prevent that thrashing. Again, what else was running, and what was the size of the ARC? -B -- Brandon

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_86 on a MacBook?

2008-04-10 Thread Brandon High
ing this for Linux on the site. I haven't tried this and I have no idea if it'll work, but it might let you sneak around a MBR issue. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche ___ opensol

Re: [osol-discuss] Mysql's Innodb immensely slow on ZFS

2008-04-10 Thread Brandon High
ng the server up to 4GB or 8GB will probably smooth things out. Crucial has an 2GB kit for $105, 4GB for $300, or 8GB for $550. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Mysql's Innodb immensely slow on ZFS

2008-04-09 Thread Brandon High
s consume 1.5GB of memory, you're limiting your performance. MySQL with InnoDB performs better with a smaller buffer pool size on ZFS, relying instead on the ZFS cache. Increasing the buffer pool size and decreasing the ARC cache size is the exact opposite of what you want to do. -B -- Brandon Hi

Re: [osol-discuss] New ZFS NAS Build,

2008-03-17 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Orvar Korvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ive heard of people having problems with port multiplier? It isnt yet > supported? My bad, it looks like port multipliers aresupported in Opensolaris, but not by the SATA controllers yet. -B __

Re: [osol-discuss] New ZFS NAS Build,

2008-03-17 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:27 PM, andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > New desktop motherboards don't have PCI-X slots, so yes - you would need to > buy a server board to get a PCI-X slot. > > My question would be: is there not a PCI Express version of this card? It doesn't look like there is one

[osol-discuss] Updated HCL for Opens Solaris

2008-03-12 Thread Brandon High
Is there an up to date HCL for Open Solaris, or what will be added in 10u5? Both the sddtool and Sun's site seem out of date. Thanks -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche ___ opensolaris-