Spin down hard disk: any suggestions?

2005-05-07 Thread Paolo Pisati
As the subject says i'm trying to spin down/turn off/ put in energy safe/etcetc automatically my usb disk. I'm running 5.x and the only way to reliably calm down my disk was to umount it. The 'trick' was to use automount and periodically check & umount it, but i thought there should be better

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 22:20:43 +0930 From: Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Denis Peplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Julian Elischer <[EMAIL

Re: Spin down hard disk: any suggestions?

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Anderson
Paolo Pisati wrote: As the subject says i'm trying to spin down/turn off/ put in energy safe/etcetc automatically my usb disk. I'm running 5.x and the only way to reliably calm down my disk was to umount it. The 'trick' was to use automount and periodically check & umount it, but i thought there

Trouble with 5.4

2005-05-07 Thread Erik Udo
I've had this problem with the latest releng_5_4 and releng_5. They boot fine, but after kernel has loaded, it panics at the same moment i press any keyboard button. My memory and keyboard has been working fine and i dont they they are the cause. So if i boot to single user mode, keyboard wont work

Re: FS impl.

2005-05-07 Thread David Parfitt
Hi - Thank you all for the suggestions - I have a long weekend of hacking ahead of me :-) Thanks again - David On 5/6/05, Stephan Uphoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 16:01, Kip Macy wrote: > > On Fri, 6 May 2005, David Parfitt wrote: > > > > > Hi - > > > I have been tryi

Re: Trouble with 5.4

2005-05-07 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:57:11PM +0300, Erik Udo wrote.. > I've had this problem with the latest releng_5_4 and releng_5. > They boot fine, but after kernel has loaded, it panics at the same > moment i press any keyboard button. My memory and keyboard has been > working fine and i dont they they

Re: Trouble with 5.4

2005-05-07 Thread Joel Dahl
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:57 +0300, Erik Udo wrote: > I've had this problem with the latest releng_5_4 and releng_5. > They boot fine, but after kernel has loaded, it panics at the same > moment i press any keyboard button. My memory and keyboard has been > working fine and i dont they they are the

Re: Spin down hard disk: any suggestions?

2005-05-07 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Paolo Pisati wrote: ... As the subject says i'm trying to spin down/turn off/ put in energy safe/etcetc automatically my usb disk. Have a look on sysutils/gstopd Bye/2 --- Michael Reifenberger, Business Development Manager SAP-Basis, Plaut Consulting Comp: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pr

Re: Making multiple jails

2005-05-07 Thread Marek Denis
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:15:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > another option is to use cpdup to duplicate a fresh jail > > also quite interesting imho is this : > > http://www.the-labs.com/FreeBSD/JailTools/fbsd_jails.html > > this webmin-module offers "light-jails", read-only /usr mount,

Re: Very low disk performance Highpoint 1820a

2005-05-07 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Steven Hartland wrote: I've just finished putting together a new server box spec: Dual AMD 244, 2GB ram, 5 * Seagate SATA 400GB on a Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 array. 5.4-STABLE Highpoint 1820a RAID 5 ( 5 disk ) . 65536 bytes transferred in 13.348032 secs (49097875 bytes/sec) You're only transferi