Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

[Stein M . Sandbech]

On Nov 25, 2004, at 9:03 PM, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Harald Arnesen wrote:
All Radeons up to 9100 (9200, but that one is slower). Unfortunately,
that excludes all reasonably new cards.
The newer cards work very well.  I have a X800se PCI-Express card and 
it works like a charm with X.org 6.8.1 on 5.3.
Which also the newest nVidia cards also do. I got a brand new Intel MB 
based P4 with nVidia GeForce 6  6600 GPU
(on PCI Express of course). They run flawlessly in VESA mode 
(FreeBSD5.3 and 4.10).  Fast enough for me as a
regular 2D accelerator.

But, I guess its the accelerated driver (nVidia bin driver) most ppl 
will go for, and I have mixed feelings
regarding the latest driver. My system became fairly unstable (a bit 
worse than a standard Windows
system too :-( ). This was with the older GeForce 5 5900 controller, 
though.

Stein M. Sandbech
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Re: Was: Re: Making a data DVD with 4.10 and dvd+rw-format

[Stein M. Sandbech]

On Dec 3, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Godwin Stewart wrote:
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:31:09 +0100, Godwin Stewart 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

but sometimes it gets thrown into limbo and the only way to resume
operation is to perform a hard reset
Sorry for the self-fup but a thought occurred to me.
Stein, have you tried "camcontrol reset n,n,n" to reset the DVD drive?
Yes, I tried that (if my memory doesn't fail me). It seemed to fail on 
something
related to the ATAPI device /dev/acd0.

Well, I'll test this again tonight, just to be sure
Thanx for info anyways.
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G. Stewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers
Stein M. Sandbech
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Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

[Stein M. Sandbech]

On Jan 20, 2005, at 22:09, Michael R. Wayne wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:36:05PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
What 'other vendor' have you found that makes RELIABLE SATA disks in 
the
high capacity (e.g. 200-300gb) arena?
WD now makes a SATA RAID line.  HIGHLY recommended by 3ware.
FYI,
Im using a Maxtor 6B200M0 200GB Serial ATA disk in a Shuttle XPC.
FreeBSD 5.3R.
I'm having problems with this disk just after startup, and it seem to 
me its
related to temperature. Occationally, when starting up with disk @ room 
temperature
I usually get a handfull of the checksum errors listed below. If it 
been sitting in the
car for a while and temp is down to 15C or below, it wont start at all.
Just giving a lot more of the CRC errors, and usually a kernel panic.

I sometimes heated the disk with a hairdryer ;-)
The normal procedure is now to start the PC and stop the boot process,
and let the system heat up by itself, 5mins usaually.
Any got similar experiences with the Maxtor SATA's?
If this is the norm, I'd rather stay away from these Maxtor products...
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Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=209417132
Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA 
status=51 error=84 
dma=0x02LBA=209417132Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - 
WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=209679308

Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=210203692
Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=210203692
Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=209941484
Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=209941484
Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=209950124
Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=209950124
Jan  9 16:35:43 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=209941484
Jan  9 16:35:47 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=302277292
Jan  9 16:35:47 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=302099020
Jan  9 16:35:55 biosphere kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 
retries left) LBA=302077068
Jan  9 16:35:55 biosphere kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed outJan  
9 16:35:59 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error 
(retrying request) LBA=210465708

Jan  9 16:36:00 biosphere kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC 
error (retrying request) LBA=221218956

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Best Regards
Stein Morten
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