Re: GPU support for Linux 4.19

2020-05-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 22 May 2020 16:52:29 +0200 n...@dismail.de wrote: > > I only need Debian GNU/Linux to detect it and know which GPU is to > > passthrough it to my Windows gaming VM, to play Windows-only games. > > For Debian I already have Intel's IGPU. > > I may be mistaken, but doesn't a proper GPU pa

Re: Debian 10 installer using serial output

2020-05-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks for you fast response, John. This helped a lot. > If you see the option the Debian installer page (Graphical install', > 'install', 'install with speatch') press escape use the below at the > boot prompt Here was the problem. I do not see those options. The output waits after 'ISOLINUX 6.0

Debian 10 installer using serial output

2020-05-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I would like to install Debian on a headless board using a USB drive. The board has a serial port and I would like to use that to install Debian 10 using netinst. It is an APU board [1]. I found a guide [2] on how to install Debian 9. Unfortunately I get stuck at step 4 where the installer

Re: KVM PCI Passthrough NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti error code 43

2017-11-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
Dear all I have contacted NVidia support for help. In essence they said that they do not support KVM. But when I asked about the deliberate disabling when virtualization is detected, they wanted to help me and I had to grab some more information about the guest system. Full log: https://pastebin

Re: KVM PCI Passthrough NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti error code 43

2017-11-17 Thread Ramon Hofer
Dear Alexander, On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:09:38 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: > How many video adapters in your host machine? In BIOS you have to > select video adapter to be initialized first (ex. IGFX). It has to be > other than GTX1080, and you can't use 1080 in your host OS if you > wan

Re: Re: KVM PCI Passthrough NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti error code 43

2017-11-16 Thread Ramon Hofer
Dear Alexander, Thanks for your reply and sorry for my late response. If I may ask you to reply to all and keep me in CC, this way I get the email in my client and can easily answer. > On 14.11.2017 02:37, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > Thank you very much for your reply. > > Interesti

Re: KVM PCI Passthrough NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti error code 43

2017-11-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
Dear Adam, On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:49:02 +0100 Adam Cécile wrote: > Here is my notes/scripts when I did that to attach an nvidia card > inside a KVM virtual machine: > https://github.com/eLvErDe/nvidia-docker-cuda-kvm-with-passthru/blob/master/create-kvm-for-nvidia-docker.sh I rembered that I ca

Re: KVM PCI Passthrough NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti error code 43

2017-11-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
Dear Adam, On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:49:02 +0100 Adam Cécile wrote: > Here is my notes/scripts when I did that to attach an nvidia card > inside a KVM virtual machine: > https://github.com/eLvErDe/nvidia-docker-cuda-kvm-with-passthru/blob/master/create-kvm-for-nvidia-docker.sh Thank you very much

Re: Re: KVM PCI Passthrough NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti error code 43

2017-11-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
Dear Alexander, Thank you very much for your reply. > > The system I am using: > > lshw: https://pastebin.com/tB7FqqxN > > > > Host OS:Debian 9 Stretch > > Mainboard: Supermicro C7Z170-M (activated VT-d in Bios) > > CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz > > GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX1080 Ti > > > > T

KVM PCI Passthrough NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti error code 43

2017-11-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
Dear all, Please help me passthrough my GPU the a KVM guest. The system I am using: lshw: https://pastebin.com/tB7FqqxN Host OS:Debian 9 Stretch Mainboard: Supermicro C7Z170-M (activated VT-d in Bios) CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX1080 Ti The GPU is not listed beca

nvidia-driver in Sid

2016-12-04 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I am using sid and after dist-upgrading today I can not start X anymore: # apt-get update Hit:1 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian sid InRelease Reading package lists... Done xbmc@hoferr-htpc:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

Debian Jessie Postgres 9.4 connection problem

2016-11-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I am trying to setup a postgresql 9.4 database on Debian Jessie. It worked well on testing with postgresql 9.6 from the repos and then I already could connect with $ sudo -u postgres psql I would like to use Jessie but when I try the same on stable with postgresql 9.4, this is what I get w

Sync Orage and Android (via calendarserver?)

2013-03-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'm using Orage calendar on my Desktop. I have an Android tablet which I'd like to keep in sync with Orage. My desktop machine doesn't run all the time but I have a home server which does. Therefore I'd like to put the shared calendar data on the server so that both the desktop and the

Re: ivtv driver in Wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64

2013-01-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:09:11 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-01-05 19:10 +0100, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> When I try to load it I get >> >> # modprobe ivtv libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:174 >> kmod_module_parse_depline: >> ctx=0x7fc95a92e01

Re: ivtv driver in Wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64

2013-01-05 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks for your answer, Sven! On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:02:33 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > The obvious difference to the dmesg with the old kernel is that there > are no messages from the ivtv module. Is that module loaded? If not, > what happens if you modprobe it manually? The module isn't load

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-05 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi war_dhan What brand and type is your laptop? On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:58:03 +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: > questions: > without opening the laptop where can i find info about number of pins & > voltage capacity of my memory module ? [ i am scared to open laptop ]. Usually there's a cover to a

ivtv driver in Wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64

2013-01-05 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I have updated my media server to Wheezy and added a new TV capture card. The one I'm using for some time now is an analogue Hauppauge PVR-500 and I added a DigitalDevices Cine C/T with DuoFlex C/T a quad DVB-C capture card some days ago. With the old kernel: $ uname -a Linux media-ser

Re: Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:05:45 -0400, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: > I am thinking of the Norco 16/20 hotswap and a 2x operton QC CPU m/b but > wasnt sure what a solid performing m/b would be that will work well with > the LSI? Any thoughts? > > Thanks my hands are now itching for this project to be compl

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 19:15 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 06:27:22PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > I now changed the stop function to (added the if test) to get rid of > > error messages when running `sid-sabnzbdplus stop` twice: > > stop_sab() { >

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 10:25 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 05:27:14PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Son, 2012-07-22 at 15:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > > On Sam, 2012-07-

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 11:34 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 06:31:48PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:18 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:54:58AM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 04:52 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/22/2012 10:17 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > But if you multiply the price of five Netgear NV+ (which each holds four > > disks) ~ CHF 300.-- each then this isn't what I'd call cheap. > > And even if y

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:18 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:54:58AM +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:32:14 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:49PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >> On Fr

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Son, 2012-07-22 at 15:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > > > Firstly, add schroot to Required-(Start|Stop), since you do > > > need i

Re: Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
use NAS. Cheers Ramon > On 22/07/2012 8:49 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 07:41:32 -0400, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: > > > >> I am trying to put together a 2U storage server for data. I have > >> previously invested in NAS equipment such as the Netgear

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-22 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 04:52:24PM +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:54:58 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > > > I found what I did wrong: In the init.d script I used chroot instead of &

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:54:58 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > I found what I did wrong: In the init.d script I used chroot instead of > schroot: > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Lamy4K4a > > Could you please help me with the correct command? > Instead of `chroot /srv/chroot/sid /etc/

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:32:14 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:49PM +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:26PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> I have s

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
ymore > in light of that. I haven't used schroot or chroot before. So you're advice is helpful for sure :-) > Ramon Hofer wrote: >> The program I'd like to jail is a daemon which means I should use the >> longer script. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:26PM +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> I have some questions about starting daemons in a chroot environment or >> rather about starting schroot on bootup. >> The reason I want to do this is

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks for your answer, Bob! On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:28:52 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Installed sid $ sudo debootstrap sid /srv/chroot/sid/ >> http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ > > I haven't submitted a bug yet but I always have problems with sysvinit > postinst depending upon ischroot and ischroo

Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I have some questions about starting daemons in a chroot environment or rather about starting schroot on bootup. The reason I want to do this is to clean up my server. It's a Squeeze with an AMD64 kernel from backports. Some packages are from testing which gives me problems because of de

Re: Reason to use a partition

2012-07-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Die, 2012-07-03 at 03:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/3/2012 3:16 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:04 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > > > >> Hello Ramon, > >> > >> Ramon Hofer wrote: > >>> /dev/sdi1

Re: Reason to use a partition

2012-07-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:04:04 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Ramon, > > Ramon Hofer wrote: >> /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk >>xfs1.9T 1.9T 3.3G 100% /mnt/recordings_temp >> >> Is there a reason why one sh

Reason to use a partition

2012-07-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I have accidentally found that it's possible to use a whole disk instead of a partition spanning a whole disk. I have two 2 TB disks. One (sdi) has a partition with jfs and the other (sdk) has xfs directly on the disk: /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk

Recovering nested raid (was LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot)

2012-06-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:46:55 +0200 Ramon Hofer wrote: > I'm again having problems with the disks getting kicked out of the > array :-o I've already asked this before on the debian list and got an answer. But I'm not sure if I should do this. Here's a li

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-17 Thread Ramon Hofer
I'm again having problems with the disks getting kicked out of the array :-o First of all the old WD green 2TB disk which was marked failed also makes problems in the Netgear ReadyNas. I will see if I still have warranty and try to get a new one. But the other issue scares me a bit ;-) Here's wh

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-16 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Well lets look at this more closely. The disks may not be bad. How > old are they? Send me your dmesg output: Sorry I forgot to write the last time: The WD20EARS I have bough between 14. Dec 2010 and 01. Oct 2011. Maybe it was also ca

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/15/2012 8:36 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > First of all I tried to set the raid5 with the WD 20EARS and didn't > > have much luck. They led to fail events when mdadm builds the array. > > They "worke

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/14/2012 4:51 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >> These commands don't match the pastebin. The pastebin shows you > >> creating a 4 disk RAID5 as /dev/md0. > > > > Really :-? > > That kind

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Couldn't hurt. And while you're at it, mount with "inode64" in your > fstab immediately after you create the XFS. You were running with > inode32, which sticks all the inodes at the front of AG0 causing lots > of seeks. Inode64 puts fil

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:29:25 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/13/2012 2:22 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This chain is so long I'm going to liberally snip lots of stuff > already covered. Hope that'

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/12/2012 8:40 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > >> Try the Wheezy installer. Try OpenSuSE. Try Fedora. If any of > >> these work w

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:35:57 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Hmm, probably I have to create a raid5 with the four empty 2 TB > > disks attached to the LSI. Then: > > > > ~$ mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n1 -l linear /dev/md1 > > WTF? I also had to add --force to create the array with one raid5. > > Now

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: (...) > You create two 4 drive md RAID5 arrays, one composed of the four > identical 1.5TB drives and the other composed of the four identical > 2TB drives. Then concatenate the two arrays together into an md > --linear array, similar to t

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-12 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:30:08 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/10/2012 9:00 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > A situation update: Mounted the mobo with the CPU and RAM, attached > > the PSU, the OS SATA disk, the LSI and expander as well as the > > graphics card. There are no

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-10 Thread Ramon Hofer
A situation update: Mounted the mobo with the CPU and RAM, attached the PSU, the OS SATA disk, the LSI and expander as well as the graphics card. There are no disks attached to the expander because I put them again into the old NAS and backing up the data from the 1.5 TB disks to it. Then I instal

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
logue TV card(s) It would be nice if it had a connector for the lan chassis LEDs :-) Best regards Ramon On Wed, 30 May 2012 17:38:01 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/30/2012 4:52 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2012 20:49:32 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 29 May 2012 20:49:32 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/29/2012 7:09 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > (...) > > > >> Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-29 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: (...) > Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS > show the disk device, RAID level, and its size? > > What we need to figure out is whether this is a BIOS problem at this > point or a Debian installer kernel dr

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-21 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:27:21 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2012 9:24 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > >> On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> > >>> Yes, I'm really thankful

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> There were no problems upgrading the fw :-) >> >> Unfortunately it didn't solve he problem. > > Grrr. > >>> 3. Go into the mobo BIOS and

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:59:53 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I was able to set a RAID1 in the WebBIOS and set the bootable option. >> But I'm not sure if the setting was accepted. Even though when I set >> the bootable opti

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:35:58 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I hoped >> you could jump in and help me :-) > > I'm actively working on it, have been for a

Wheezy removed ifupdown

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all After upgrading the packages in Wheezy amd64 I can't connect to the network anymore. This is on my htpc where I only have xbmc running. So no gnome, kde, etc. Every other computer in the network has no problems. I can't even ping localhost. It says "connect: Network is unreachable". What

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:31:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 5:33 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> Yes, I'm really thankful for the recommendation. And somehow I hoped >> you could jump in and help me :-) > > I'm actively working on it, have been for a

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:06:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 13:41:33 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I have tried to check if I can see something in the mb BIOS to see if >> it can tell me anything about the connected hardware. But I didn't find >> anything in the PCI settings. > > Mmm, have you tried to set a RAID level instead using

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 10:33:06 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:54 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Post your FW version here. It's likely pretty recent already. > > The FW version is 2.70.04-0862. > > I have a little confusion with the

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 09:09:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 21:55:36 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Are you running Squeeze? >> >> Yes, sorry forgot to mention. >> >> I in

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:19:33 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/19/2012 2:52 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> After that I would look to s

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:47:54 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/18/2012 9:23 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. >> >> Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this >> mess

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 18:28:05 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/18/2012 4:55 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I installed squeeze amd64 yesterday on a raid1 (just to try). > > You need to explain this in detail: "installed on raid1" > > Installed onto what rai

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-19 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 17:57:56 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/18/2012 9:39 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> After that I would look to see if >> something isn't shorting out a USB port. > > Yes, USB is the cause of the over-current errors, which is plainly > evident in his screen shot. But we don

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:51 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. >> >> Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this >> message on th

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 18 May 2012 08:39:57 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Ramon Hofer > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. >> >> Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I

LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-05-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I finally got my LSI 9240-4i and the Intel SAS expander. Unfortunately it prevents the system from booting. I only got this message on the screen: megasas: INIT adapter done hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 7 hub 4-1:1.0 over-current condition on port 8 I also got the over-cur

Re: chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 15 May 2012 11:45:58 +0200, David Sastre Medina wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:13:23PM +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I'm planning on setting up my new media server. >> >> So I was thinking of putting mythbackend, logitech media serv

chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-13 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'm planning on setting up my new media server. So I was thinking of putting mythbackend, logitech media server, rtorrent, nfs, samba, etc. into virtual machines. There's a discussion in the mythtv-users mailing list about virtual machines. Especially this post got me thinking: http://

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-08 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:27:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 May 2012 09:22:56 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Mon, 07 May 2012 14:35:31 +, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> Those "green" disks can be good for using them as stand-alone devices &

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-08 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 07 May 2012 14:35:31 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) > For the raided space, yes, but still you can "redistribute" the disk > better. Ah yes, this is true. (...) >> I'd like using green drives for this system. So low power consumption >> is a thing I try keep low. And until now they wor

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 18:10:41 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 17:44:54 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sun, 06 May 2012 15:40:50 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Okay. And how much space are you planning to handle? Do you prefer a >>> big pool to sto

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 15:40:50 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 14:52:19 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:47:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>>> Then I put the 28 partitions (4x3 + 4x4) in a raid 6? >>> >>> Then you ca

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:47:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:35:40 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:18:33 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> If your hard disk capacity is ~1.5 TiB then you can get 3 partitions >>> from there of ~

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 12:18:33 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 06 May 2012 11:46:21 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:15:22 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>>> On the other hand it isn't possible to have different disk sizes in a >>>> ra

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:15:22 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> Just a note of caution here. >>> >>> RAID 5 with big hard disks can be a real pain and a real problem. If >>> one of the arrays go down, the rebuilding operation can take up to >>> "days" (depending on the controller's capacity) and if whi

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-06 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sun, 06 May 2012 04:00:46 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/3/2012 1:27 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > mdraid is quite tolerant with drive errors before it finally kicks them > offline. Using the firmware RAID on this LSI card, any drive showing > flaky behavior will be kicked very

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-05 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:38:10 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2012 10:48:36 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 May 2012 20:27:02 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> There's some useful information in one of the links I sent before: >>> >>

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-04 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 20:27:02 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 03 May 2012 18:27:55 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 May 2012 16:30:00 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >> >>> 2/ The card's manufacturer provides a set of CLI tools (also GUI/web

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 13:05:55 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > His disks are fine. The Marvell SAS driver is problem. This is a > thoroughly documented. The mvsas driver is simply crap. Something that the Supermicro support told me just came back into my mind and worries me: With the Norco RPC-

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 12:21:17 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/2/2012 11:30 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43:13 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> On 5/1/2012 12:37 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>> >>>> I have the RPC-4220 case w

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 16:30:00 +, Camaleón wrote: > In brief, yes, that card seems one of those you can consider to be > "safe" enough to don't have many problems :-P This sounds very good :-) >>> Mmm, yes. I can't tell for that specific model but LSI is a good >>> manufacturer for HBA solu

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-03 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Wed, 02 May 2012 17:49:53 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 16:19:40 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:36 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Ah, okay. This one: >>> >>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Co

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-02 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:43:13 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/1/2012 12:37 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I have the RPC-4220 case with 20 howswap slots. > > You should have mentioned this sooner, as there is a better solution > than buying 3 of the 9211-8i, which is $239*

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-02 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:36 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 17:29:17 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Tue, 01 May 2012 16:16:07 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> What kind of hardware do you have (motherboard brand and model) and >>> what kind

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
Sorry I hit ctrl + enter or something and the message went out... On Tue, 01 May 2012 17:29:17 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > But I'm confused about the two different versions too. lspci shows: 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV64460/64461/64462 System Co

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 10:57:47 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/1/2012 6:53 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I'm using Debian Squeeze and would like to use a Supermicro >> AOC-SASLP-MV8 as controller for a software raid. > > The mvsas Linux driv

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 16:16:07 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Can you recommend something better? >> It was very nice because it's quite cheap and I don't need a hardware >> raid card. > > "Cheap" and "nice" do not usually came together, or to put it well, > "cheap" and "good performance" do not usually

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 14:54:24 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Do you remember how you updated the firmware? I have just got an answer from supermicro: > You can create bootable USB stick with this utility (windows only) > http://download.softpedia.ro/dl/ f82c4af1fbe1f35565d91a87dedd9c5b

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 09:35:36 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2012-05-01 11:53:27, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> I'm using Debian Squeeze and would like to use a Supermicro >> AOC-SASLP-MV8 as controller for a software raid. > > I have a different SuperMicro board and it can ru

Re: Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:31:34 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 11:53:27 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I'm using Debian Squeeze and would like to use a Supermicro >> AOC-SASLP-MV8 as controller for a software raid. Unfortunately the >> system crashes whe

Supermicro SAS controller

2012-05-01 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'm using Debian Squeeze and would like to use a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 as controller for a software raid. Unfortunately the system crashes when I try creating a filesystem on the md device. Here's the full output of lshw: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=C900cBnN The controller is liste

Re: RAID5 failure; possible to repair?

2012-04-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:03:04 +0200, Daniel Koch wrote: >- Zero all the superblocks on all the disks. (mdadm --zero-superblock >/dev/sd{b..d}) >- Recreate the array with the "--assume-clean" option. (mdadm >--create --verbose /dev/md0 --auto=yes --assume-clean --level=5 >--raid-

RAID5 failure; possible to repair?

2012-04-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I have a home server with a raid5. After switching to a new case my graphics card died and I replaced it with an old but very powerful card just to try things. Unfortunately the PSU wasn't strong enough and there were some crashes. I could fix the problems of the other disks but I had no

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-29 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:36:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:01:12 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:23:25 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> On Ma, 27 mar 12, 12:07:08, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-27 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:23:25 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 27 mar 12, 12:07:08, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> Thanks for the explanation! >> So why didn't they "just" update the version that won't receive any >> updates? > > The new ver

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-27 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:00:55 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 27 mar 12, 10:45:27, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> I was just thinking if it would be better to switch from linux- >> image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae on another machine to linux- >> image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-686-pae?

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-27 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:40:47 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:59:42 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:07:41 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Btw what's the difference between linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.1-686-pae and >> linux-image-3

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-25 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:07:41 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:14:47 +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:55:13 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>>> What do you think it would be better to completely go with testing. >>> >>>

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