RE: Disappointed with version 6.0

2009-05-18 Thread David Roberts
..@owt.com] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:44 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: David Roberts Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 On Monday 18 May 2009 09:56:07 am David Roberts wrote: > Hi, I was reading this thread as the problem I'm having seems quite > similar, and with ve

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2009-05-18 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 18 May 2009 09:56:07 am David Roberts wrote: > Hi, I was reading this thread as the problem I'm having seems quite > similar, and with version 7.2, although I had the same behavior with 6.3 as > well. > < > > ad0: 9541MB at ata0-master UDMA66 > > ad2: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller fo

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2009-05-18 Thread Mike Jeays
-- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca On May 18, 2009 12:56:07 pm David Roberts wrote: > Hi, I was reading this thread as the problem I'm having seems quite > similar, and with version 7.2, although I had the same behavior with 6.3 as > well. > > > > The only variation on th

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2009-05-18 Thread David Roberts
Hi, I was reading this thread as the problem I'm having seems quite similar, and with version 7.2, although I had the same behavior with 6.3 as well. The only variation on the dialog below is I do not have any CDROM or other device attached. My configuration is: primary IDE: 10GB Seagate

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2009-05-18 Thread David Roberts
Hi, I was reading this thread as the problem I'm having seems quite similar, and with version 7.2, although I had the same behavior with 6.3 as well. The only variation on the dialog below is I do not have any CDROM or other device attached. My configuration is: primary IDE: 10GB Seagate

RE: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris >Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:00 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Peter; freebsd-questions >Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 > > >Sounds harsh, a low end board

RE: Motherboards & FreeBSD [used to be "RE: Disappointed with version 6.0"]

2006-03-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:53 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions >Subject: Motherboards & FreeBSD [used to be "RE: Disappointed with >version 6.0"] > > > >--- Ted Mitte

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-16 Thread Peter
--- Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter wrote: > > >The values I'm getting fluctuate wildly. Sometimes with a > difference > >of 30 degrees after waiting just a couple of seconds. > > > > > That really doesn't sound good to me, but I don't really have enough > experience of syste

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter wrote: The values I'm getting fluctuate wildly. Sometimes with a difference of 30 degrees after waiting just a couple of seconds. That really doesn't sound good to me, but I don't really have enough experience of system building to do more than guess at the cause. I would strongly s

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-16 Thread Peter
--- Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter wrote: > > >>You could check and see what sysutils/healthd reports. It doesn't > >>get all the volatges correct, but gets temps that, for me, reasonably match the > >> BIOS and seem believable. > >> > >Is it a science project or fairly si

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter wrote: You could check and see what sysutils/healthd reports. It doesn't get all the volatges correct, but gets temps that, for me, reasonably match the BIOS and seem believable. Is it a science project or fairly simple? Trivial. From memory but it should w

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-15 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Peter wrote: > No, I have a decent heatsink and a 120 mm chassis fan. I touch the heatsink and it is not even warm. This can actually indicate a problem - if the heatsink is not making proper contact with the cpu heat is not getting transferred = hot cpu and cool heatsink. Might be worth d

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-15 Thread Peter
--- Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter wrote: > > >Right now I am running the 40 GB and the 200 GB IDE drives as master > >and slave on the primary controller and the CDROM as master on the > >secondary. The USB and serial ports are working. I concluded that > the > >300 GB disk w

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter wrote: Right now I am running the 40 GB and the 200 GB IDE drives as master and slave on the primary controller and the CDROM as master on the secondary. The USB and serial ports are working. I concluded that the 300 GB disk was bad so I am returning it. Currently I can say the only pro

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-15 Thread Peter
--- Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris wrote: > > >[K8V-X SE] > >Sounds harsh, a low end board may have performance problems and less > >capability but it shouldnt justify an operating system not working, > or > >are only high end boards supported? > > > > > I have this board, and

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: [K8V-X SE] Sounds harsh, a low end board may have performance problems and less capability but it shouldnt justify an operating system not working, or are only high end boards supported? I have this board, and it works for what I do with it (single SATA 200Gb disk + built-in eth

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-14 Thread Beech Rintoul
58 PM > > >To: freebsd-questions > > >Subject: Disappointed with version 6.0 > > > > > > > > >I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time > > >and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-14 Thread Chris
On 14/03/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter > >Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 8:58 PM > >To: freebsd-questions > >Subject: Disappoin

Re: Motherboards & FreeBSD [used to be "RE: Disappointed with version 6.0"]

2006-03-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:53:00 -0500 (EST) Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a secret resource I haven't found? [EMAIL PROTECTED] + its archives FWIW, we have a TYAN dual opteron box, 4 x SATA drives, 1 RU, works a treat. I think it's the something-24 model. search the archives for more

Motherboards & FreeBSD [used to be "RE: Disappointed with version 6.0"]

2006-03-14 Thread Peter
--- Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long > time > >and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard > is > >the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible > at > >the FreeBSD/amd64 P

RE: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-14 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter >Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 8:58 PM >To: freebsd-questions >Subject: Disappointed with version 6.0 > > >I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been pl

Re: "cg 0: bad magic number" (used to be Disappointed with version 6.0)

2006-03-12 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 23:51, Peter wrote: > > Are you doing this through sysinstall or are you manually running > > fdisk > > and bsdlabel. > > Through sysinstall. Both disklabel and fdisk don't work. The former > gives "input/output error" and output to the latter I gave in my last > post.

Re: "cg 0: bad magic number" (used to be Disappointed with version 6.0)

2006-03-12 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 21:08, you wrote: > Hi Donald. It's me again. I sent this to the list and saw I didn't > include you. > I haven't seen the one on the list yet, this one got here first. > . > > Ok, I have narrowed down my problem a great deal. It appears that > FreeBSD canno

Re: "cg 0: bad magic number" (used to be Disappointed with version 6.0)

2006-03-12 Thread Peter
--- "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I have narrowed down my problem a great deal. It appears that > > FreeBSD cannot read the partition table of my 300 GB Seagate > > Barracuda. My dos diagnostic utility works because it accesses the > > disk in a different way. > > > > I

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 20:03, Peter wrote: > > OK, does dmesg still give this with the cdrom removed: > > > > ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable > > ad0: 39205MB at ata0-master UDMA33 > > acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave PIO4 > > ad2: 190782MB at ata1-master UDMA100 > > ad3: 28

"cg 0: bad magic number" [used to be "Disappointed with version 6.0]

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
Ok, I have narrowed down my problem a great deal. It appears that FreeBSD cannot read the partition table of my 300 GB Seagate Barracuda. My dos diagnostic utility works because it accesses the disk in a different way. I used the entire disk (one slice/partition) and attempted to format it. Thi

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
--- "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 18:48, Peter wrote: > > > > You can answer me tomorrow if you like but here is an update: > > > > I removed the cdrom and the problem remains. I got the usb ports > to > > work as well by updating the bios and fiddlin

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
--- "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:38, Peter wrote: > > --- "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable > > > > ad0: 39205MB at ata0-master UDMA33 > > > > acd0: CD

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 18:48, Peter wrote: > > You can answer me tomorrow if you like but here is an update: > > I removed the cdrom and the problem remains. I got the usb ports to > work as well by updating the bios and fiddling with some settings. > It is truly a mystery why this 300 GB driv

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:38, Peter wrote: > --- "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > > ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable > > > ad0: 39205MB at ata0-master UDMA33 > > > acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave PIO4 > > > ad2: 190782MB at ata1-master UDMA100 >

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 11 March 2006 02:42, Peter wrote: > --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:57:59PM -0500, Peter wrote: > > > I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long > > > > time > > > > > and I am very disappointed with two critical issues.

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
--- "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable > > ad0: 39205MB at ata0-master UDMA33 > > acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave PIO4 > > ad2: 190782MB at ata1-master UDMA100 > > ad3: 286168MB at ata1-slave UDMA100 > > Trying to mount

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 06:42:49AM -0500, Peter wrote: > > > 2. I can't use my USB ports! > > > > > > I get a line like this for each of my ports: > > > > > > uhci0: port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 21 at > > device > > > 16.0 on pci0 > > > uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > > > OK, but what is the problem? >

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-11 06:42, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:57:59PM -0500, Peter wrote: > > > Onto the problems... > > > > You might have more luck if you also talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm not sure who this is but I'll loo

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 10 March 2006 22:57, Peter wrote: > I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time > and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard > is the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible > at the FreeBSD/amd64 Project: > > http

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/11/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You might have more luck if you also talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm not sure who this is but I'll look into it. The amd64-related mailing list > When something is plugged into a [USB] port and t

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-11 Thread Peter
--- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:57:59PM -0500, Peter wrote: > > I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long > time > > and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My > motherboard is > > the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose becaus

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 3/11/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I set it up ok with sysinstall during the installation but the system > will not boot properly if it has an entry in /etc/fstab. I get many > errors like: > > "ad3: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=63" Next time you might wan

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:57:59PM -0500, Peter wrote: > I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time > and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard is > the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible at > the FreeBSD/amd64 Projec

Disappointed with version 6.0

2006-03-10 Thread Peter
I'm setting up a new server on 6.0 I've been planning for a long time and I am very disappointed with two critical issues. My motherboard is the ASUS K8V-X SE that I chose because it was listed as compatible at the FreeBSD/amd64 Project: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html I