Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, November 21, 2012 a las 09:19:24PM -0700, Warren Block escribió: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: The fdisk/bsdlabel section of my disk setup article has been rewritten to use gpart. Feedback welcome. http://www.wonkity.

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, November 21, 2012 a las 09:19:24PM -0700, Warren Block escribió: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: > > > The fdisk/bsdlabel section of my disk setup article has been rewritten > to use gpart. Feedback welcome. > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-22 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Shane Ambler wrote: On 22/11/2012 14:49, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: Got a chance to set up a scratch drive and check this. Turns out I left out the step of creating a "slice" (MBR partition) to hold the FreeBSD partitions. Also, GPT lab

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-22 Thread Shane Ambler
On 22/11/2012 14:49, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: Got a chance to set up a scratch drive and check this. Turns out I left out the step of creating a "slice" (MBR partition) to hold the FreeBSD partitions. Also, GPT labels cannot be used in an MBR. Fixed below.

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-22 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: Warren Block skrev 2012-11-22 05:19: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: Got a chance to set up a scratch drive and check this. Turns out I left out the step of creating a "slice" (MBR partition) to hold the FreeBSD partitions. Also, GPT labels

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-22 Thread Leslie Jensen
Thank you very much for your work on this. I have found this conversation and your article very informative. I've already installed W7 on my SSD but I let the installation program create the windows (MBR) partition. I'm going to install FreeBSD 9.1 as soon as it is ready so I want to ask i

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: Got a chance to set up a scratch drive and check this. Turns out I left out the step of creating a "slice" (MBR partition) to hold the FreeBSD partitions. Also, GPT labels cannot be used in an MBR. Fixed below. I will probably add this to my disk set

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-21 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: 2012/11/20 Warren Block : On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: Just one small problem. Here I got this: # gpart create -s bsd ada2s1 gpart: geom 'ada2s1': File exists # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s1 gpart: index '1': No such file or director

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Snow Mountains
2012/11/20 Warren Block : > I know I've seen that, but can't recall what causes it. You can try > retasting before creating the BSD partitions: > > # true > /dev/ada2 > # gpart create -s bsd ada2s2 Sorry, no difference: # gpart show ada2 => 63 468862065 ada2 MBR (223G) 63

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: 2012/11/20 Warren Block : On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: Just one small problem. Here I got this: # gpart create -s bsd ada2s1 gpart: geom 'ada2s1': File exists # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s1 gpart: index '1': No such file or director

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Snow Mountains
2012/11/20 Warren Block : > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: > >> Just one small problem. Here I got this: >> >> # gpart create -s bsd ada2s1 >> gpart: geom 'ada2s1': File exists >> # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s1 >> gpart: index '1': No such file or directory >> >> Expected? Anyway, is

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: Just one small problem. Here I got this: # gpart create -s bsd ada2s1 gpart: geom 'ada2s1': File exists # gpart set -a active -i 1 ada2s1 gpart: index '1': No such file or directory Expected? Anyway, is it any way to but FreeBSD on something like s2?

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Snow Mountains
2012/11/19 Warren Block : > On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: > >> 2012/11/18 Shane Ambler : >>> >>> On 18/11/2012 06:49, Snow Mountains wrote: >>> Could you recommend a reliable document on how to do a correct block alignment for new FreeBSD 9 install? FreeBSD Handbook doesn't >

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Snow Mountains wrote: 2012/11/18 Shane Ambler : On 18/11/2012 06:49, Snow Mountains wrote: Could you recommend a reliable document on how to do a correct block alignment for new FreeBSD 9 install? FreeBSD Handbook doesn't mention this at all, although I can find a lot of

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-19 Thread Snow Mountains
2012/11/18 Shane Ambler : > On 18/11/2012 06:49, Snow Mountains wrote: > >> Could you recommend a reliable document on how to do a correct block >> alignment for new FreeBSD 9 install? FreeBSD Handbook doesn't >> mention this at all, although I can find a lot of (not quite >> consistent) advises on

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread Shane Ambler
On 18/11/2012 06:49, Snow Mountains wrote: Could you recommend a reliable document on how to do a correct block alignment for new FreeBSD 9 install? FreeBSD Handbook doesn't mention this at all, although I can find a lot of (not quite consistent) advises on the net on how to do it with gpart/new

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread Snow Mountains
2012/11/17 ill...@gmail.com : > On 17 November 2012 12:26, Snow Mountains wrote: >> * How will FreeBSD 9 behave in such situations? Any special tweaking needed? > > I wouldn't expect any special behaviour, though you need to take care > with block alignment. Perhaps in the future FreeBSD will hav

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 17 November 2012 12:26, Snow Mountains wrote: > Hello, > > I'm about to upgrade hardware on my desktop and to install FreeBSD 9 > on it. I have ASUS P5KPL-C and want to buy a SSD or SATA-III 6Gb/s > drive for it. > > Please advise me: > > * does it make sense to buy SSD drive for a mb that supp

FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread Snow Mountains
Hello, I'm about to upgrade hardware on my desktop and to install FreeBSD 9 on it. I have ASUS P5KPL-C and want to buy a SSD or SATA-III 6Gb/s drive for it. Please advise me: * does it make sense to buy SSD drive for a mb that supports 4x SATA 3Gb/s (of couse, expecting a possible future mb upgr