scsi tape drives

2006-03-27 Thread Mohan Singh
According to FAQ 4.3.3, SCSI tape drives are supported. I'm looking at getting a Dell PowerVault 124T Autoloader LTO-3 system. This product has an Ultra-2 SCSI interface, can I reasonably assume that I can run this machine via a FreeBSD system and it will work? I am aware that I might have issues

Re: suspend works, but resume doesn't on Dell desktop

2005-11-05 Thread Mohan Singh
On 11/5/05, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mohan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I get resume to work properly? > > On my ThinkPad R51 I put > > acpi_video_load="YES" > hw.acpi.reset_video=0 > hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswi

suspend works, but resume doesn't on Dell desktop

2005-11-04 Thread Mohan Singh
I have a Dell Dimension 4700, dual booting XP and FreeBSD 5.4. Windows can hibernate and stand-by fine. I'm trying to do the same (or at least standby) from FreeBSD. As I understand it Windows standby == FreeBSD suspend (zzz). As root, when I run suspend/zzz, it seems to go into standby mode, jus

Re: telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Mohan Singh
On 10/25/05, Mohan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I connect to a nameserver and talk to it so I can know it is > working? I get as far as connecting to the port, but I don't know how to > make it send back anything meaningful. Thanks to all who replied. The be

telnetting/netcatting into a DNS server?

2005-10-25 Thread Mohan Singh
Whenever I need to test a mail/ssh/web server, I usually just telnet or nc into the appropriate port, i.e.: $ echo "GET / " |nc -v yahoo.com 80 $ nc -v localhost 22 Connection to localhost 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded! SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.2 How would I connect to a nameserver and talk

Re: one way network issue

2005-10-18 Thread Mohan Singh
On 10/18/05, Mohan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But on the new install of the machine, I cannot ping or access it from > a different subnet. To answer my own question, I didn't add a gateway for the subnet in question from this machine. Added it and everything is working n

one way network issue

2005-10-18 Thread Mohan Singh
I recently upgraded a FreeBSD box from 4.10 to 4.11 (nuke and install method). The settings in /etc are identical to the way it was (I went over it with "vim -d" to double check). Externally (router/firewall, etc.), nothing has changed. But on the new install of the machine, I cannot ping or acc

root can't write to NFS mounted directory

2005-10-18 Thread Mohan Singh
I have some home directories that is mounted over NFS. The users who log in via NIS can write to their respective home directories, but root on the NFS client can't. The NFS directories are exported via a NAS. I know it is not a configuration issue on the NFS server, as it previously worked fine,