Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-20 Thread TJ Varghese
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I am looking for a new low power mini-itx board for my firewall/home > server. I've had VIA boards but flacky disk controller and other problems > have made me look for something else. > > So, going all Intel, I hope there will be no

Re: 5900 RPM drives

2010-08-14 Thread TJ Varghese
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > I was actually looking at the Seagate Barracuda model... I'm upgrading my > RAID 5 of 8x1TB to something larger. $135 each: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148487 > > If it's for a personal NAS, it's fine, but if

Re: 5900 RPM drives

2010-08-13 Thread TJ Varghese
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Can anyone give me any reasons to buy these over 7200RPMs for a RAID? I may > need to pinch pennies if I have to finance my next servers out of pocket. > Stupid idea, I know, but I really want to know if there's a reason to skimp. > > Specifi

Re: USB disk boot issues

2010-04-14 Thread TJ Varghese
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:38:53 -0500 Peter Steele wrote: > >> We clone systems from specially prepared USB flash sticks and this all works >> well, except that occasionally the flash stick fails to boot. It fails at >> the "mount root" step,

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread TJ Varghese
2009/11/18 Dánielisz László : > Hello, > > My computer get starts to reboot all the time I do a higher hdd use (like: > fsck, copying more GB of data). I was sure that my power supply its not > enough so I changed it (300W->450W), now it does the same. I'm looking for a > tool to measure the exa

Re: Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

2009-11-17 Thread TJ Varghese
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Modulok wrote: > List, > > Has anyone used 'Wester Digital Caviar Black' disks in a gstripe? > > I'm building a 2TB gstripe, from 3x 1TB disks. My concern, is the > disks are 'consumer grade' disks. Western Digital mention not to use > them with a raid controller a

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-22 Thread TJ Varghese
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Benjamin Lee wrote: > On 06/22/2009 06:16 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: >> On a BSD box at work (at an extremely fast connection and static IP), >> I run an SSH server.  I am the only person who uses the server, but I >> use it from some locations that are behind a dy

Re: CPU/motherboard recommendations

2009-06-13 Thread TJ Varghese
Robert Huff wrote: I am actively building the parts list for a new system, and would welcome advice on motherboards. Quick research has pointed me to two paths with regard to CPUs: Intel Q9550(s)/Q9650, and AMD Phenom II 925/945. (Unfortunately, the 925 doesn't seem to be availab

Re: Any help about FreeBSD & Dell's Troubleshooting Tool DSET

2008-11-12 Thread TJ Varghese
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Sérgio de Almeida Lenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello > > > > the best configuration I used is to use RAID-0 (no raid) > on the controller and g mirror on the FreeBSD (that is I use > the mirror in software) mainly because the Freebsd kernel > is, in this man

Re: inventory software?

2008-08-26 Thread TJ Varghese
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Wojciech Puchar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a inventory software in ports tree? >> > > in base system - simply read /var/run/dmesg.boot sysutils/dmidecode cat pkg-descr Dmidecode is a tool or dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents i