Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-05 Thread D. Goss
I wanted to say what Kirk has said well. As a customer, if a company is going to overbearingly copy-protect software i'll look for an alternative. I understand a license number and maybe a key generator, even a dial-in check to some home server. Dongles stink but I have used software wit

Re: Can I Rebuild / and /usr Remotely? Ideas?

2005-09-20 Thread D. Goss
Thanks. Guess it'll just be easier to physically go to the console. Not that big of a deal in this case but I wanted to try it remotely just for future reference. That way if the need arose, I could be fairly confident I could do it remotely. It is OS independent but one thing to think

Re: basic install question - what am I missing?

2005-08-27 Thread D. Goss
On Aug 26, 2005, at 7:14 PM, D. Goss wrote: Sorry to have to ask this but I'm stuck... I've had FreeBSD 5.4 installed on an IBM xSeries 345 (the same box) many times. I've been experimenting with (a) the stock setup and then (b) adding a ServeRAID card which led to (c) an

basic install question - what am I missing?

2005-08-26 Thread D. Goss
Sorry to have to ask this but I'm stuck... I've had FreeBSD 5.4 installed on an IBM xSeries 345 (the same box) many times. I've been experimenting with (a) the stock setup and then (b) adding a ServeRAID card which led to (c) an Adaptec (ASR-2230) RAID card (software management exists that

Re: finding aaccli from Adaptec

2005-08-21 Thread D. Goss
Can someone who may be using this point me where to get a current version of the rpm that contains aaccli? I've had it for a while and don't remember where I got it, but just download everything linux you find at adaptec and you are bound to find it, and probably faster than someone

finding aaccli from Adaptec

2005-08-21 Thread D. Goss
I'm following some directions found in the archives in order to get the Linux version (that is apparently more current than the FreeBSD one) of aaccli installed to manage an Adaptec RAID card under FreeBSD 5.4 (using Linux compatibility). I thought I found the correct rpm from the Linux sec

question about dmesg output - acpi0

2005-07-30 Thread D. Goss
I'm trying to figure out my dmesg - I'm getting this in part: acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 460, 2 (4) failed Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x488-0x48b on acpi0 cpu0: on acpi0 c

Re: SCSI RAID management under FreeBSD 5.x

2005-07-27 Thread D. Goss
On Jul 27, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: What is the Adaptec model for this IBM card? Most of the standard Adaptec cards seem to have SW that works. If so, what device does it come up under? What does the dmesg look like? Chad ips0: [GIANT-LOCKED] -- snip -- A

Re: SCSI RAID management under FreeBSD 5.x

2005-07-27 Thread D. Goss
On Jul 27, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: What is the Adaptec model for this IBM card? Most of the standard Adaptec cards seem to have SW that works. First, apologies, my fingers slipped - the card is a 6i. I have been unable to locate the Adapec equivalent and I'

Re: SCSI RAID management under FreeBSD 5.x

2005-07-27 Thread D. Goss
On Jul 27, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 27, 2005, at 1:16 PM, D. Goss wrote: I've done a bit of searching but I haven't found exactly what I'm after. As I understand it there is no way RAID management software for the IBM (Adaptec) Serv

SCSI RAID management under FreeBSD 5.x

2005-07-27 Thread D. Goss
I've done a bit of searching but I haven't found exactly what I'm after. As I understand it there is no way RAID management software for the IBM (Adaptec) ServeRAID cards (5i, specifically) that runs on FreeBSD (5.x). I have also read from the list archives that the Linux management softw

Re: Demon license? (copyright myths)

2005-07-20 Thread D. Goss
Unless of course you made it clear that the resemblance was intentional and your use of the copyrighted image was as part of legitimate social commentary (e.g. satire, or critique). You'd get in trouble if you tried to pass it off as an independent work. Thus the infamous "Beastie F'ing Tux

Re: atheros supported wireless card not seen under 5.4 release - help please

2005-07-01 Thread D. Goss
On Jul 1, 2005, at 11:40 PM, D. Goss wrote: I've been happy with my limited use of FreeBSD and am slowly propagating it to other machines I can find... :) I've just installed 5.4 release (generic) onto an older Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. I'm trying to get a PCMCIA wireless

atheros supported wireless card not seen under 5.4 release - help please

2005-07-01 Thread D. Goss
I've been happy with my limited use of FreeBSD and am slowly propagating it to other machines I can find... :) I've just installed 5.4 release (generic) onto an older Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. I'm trying to get a PCMCIA wireless network card working and having problems. The card is Athe

hardware crypto questions

2005-06-18 Thread D. Goss
I have an option to get a PCI crypto card based on the Broadcom BCM5820 chipset. I see the card is still listed as current at Broadcom's site and that it is supported via the ubsec(4) driver in FreeBSD. Does anyone know a few of the various common and current crypto cards? I am having a

Re: odd disk activity - solved

2005-06-15 Thread D. Goss
On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:35 PM, D. Goss wrote: On Jun 14, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Juha Saarinen wrote: On 6/15/05, D. Goss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got a bit of a general question - sorry if this is vague. I recently ran some memory tests that were posted in the list earl

Re: odd disk activity

2005-06-14 Thread D. Goss
On Jun 14, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Juha Saarinen wrote: On 6/15/05, D. Goss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got a bit of a general question - sorry if this is vague. I recently ran some memory tests that were posted in the list earlier - they are bootable CD images. Each one h

Re: odd disk activity

2005-06-14 Thread D. Goss
On Jun 14, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Juha Saarinen wrote: Did you mean to type: # mount /dev/da4s1 /mnt/misc4 instead? Sorry, typo in the explanation. I was mounting (or trying to) as da4s1... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

odd disk activity

2005-06-14 Thread D. Goss
I've got a bit of a general question - sorry if this is vague. I recently ran some memory tests that were posted in the list earlier - they are bootable CD images. Each one hung in it's standard configuration and I put them aside until later to look into in more detail. In the meantime I'

Re: 36.4GB drive formats out to 32.8GB? what am I missing please grep sectors /var/run/dmesg.boot

2005-06-14 Thread D. Goss
On Jun 14, 2005, at 8:48 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: think twice before making RAID-5 array. are you sure small writes will not be too common? No, you are on to something - I will be making small writes / parity calculations. This is going to be a web server but it is for clients and th

Re: 36.4GB drive formats out to 32.8GB? what am I missing please grep sectors /var/run/dmesg.boot

2005-06-12 Thread D. Goss
36.4pseudomarketblahgigabytes=364 bytes 1 real gigabyte is 2^30=1073741824 bytes and that's means your disk has 33.9 real Gigabytes. rest are what's used up by inodes and bitmaps. Thank you Wojciech - this is clear for me now. please show the output of grep sectors /var/run/dm

Re: new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot?

2005-06-10 Thread D. Goss
On Jun 10, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Try "camcontrol rescan all" to tell the kernel to rescan all the scsi busses. Otherwise there's no way for it to know you added a device. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, forgot something quick - I'm reading the MAN pages now on

Re: new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot?

2005-06-10 Thread D. Goss
On Jun 10, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Try "camcontrol rescan all" to tell the kernel to rescan all the scsi busses. Otherwise there's no way for it to know you added a device. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you Dan, exacty what I needed. I was unaware of camcontro

new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot?

2005-06-10 Thread D. Goss
Hi, I've been digging via Google and can't seem to find this one. I think it's an easy one unless there is some hardware specificity: Experimenting with new IBM xSeries 345. It has six hot-swap U320 SCSI bays. Just got another hot-swap drive/tray that is an IBM part to add. I inserted

Re: 36.4GB drive formats out to 32.8GB? what am I missing please

2005-06-05 Thread D. Goss
I am adding some drives to an IBM xSeries 345. I recently picked up (via eBay) an IBM packaged Seagate drive, all with the proper IBM part numbers as: U320 15k 36.4GB formatted capacity (IBM part 06P5776 / 06P5778, with Seagate drive ST336753LC) Looking up both the IBM part numbers and the Seag

36.4GB drive formats out to 32.8GB? what am I missing please

2005-06-05 Thread D. Goss
I am adding some drives to an IBM xSeries 345. I recently picked up (via eBay) an IBM packaged Seagate drive, all with the proper IBM part numbers as: U320 15k 36.4GB formatted capacity (IBM part 06P5776 / 06P5778, with Seagate drive ST336753LC) Looking up both the IBM part numbers and the

Re: help with corrupted MAC error

2005-05-30 Thread D. Goss
On May 30, 2005, at 12:22 PM, D. Goss wrote: Hi - I need some help please. I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 on an xSeries 345. I am not running 5.4 as I need to use some software that currently supports 5.3. I have a clean installation yet when I attempt to do large file transfers (I am

help with corrupted MAC error

2005-05-30 Thread D. Goss
Hi - I need some help please. I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 on an xSeries 345. I am not running 5.4 as I need to use some software that currently supports 5.3. I have a clean installation yet when I attempt to do large file transfers (I am doing "make install" in the ports tree) the transfer