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--- On Thu, 5/12/11, Dillin Smith wrote:
> From: Dillin Smith
> Subject: Hard drive detection
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 2:
thanks guys. sorry for the newbie question. ;)
Chris Rees schrieb am 2009-04-15:
> 2009/4/15 Bruce Cran :
> > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST)
> > Alexander Best wrote:
> >> hi there,
> >> i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the
> >> other
> >> one UDMA100. here
2009/4/15 Bruce Cran :
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST)
> Alexander Best wrote:
>
>> hi there,
>>
>> i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other
>> one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries:
>>
>> ad0: 238474MB at ata0-master SATA300
>> ad1: 157066MB at ata4-mas
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST)
Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
>
> i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other
> one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries:
>
> ad0: 238474MB at ata0-master SATA300
> ad1: 157066MB at ata4-master
> UDMA100
>
> i've tried to
Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
>
> i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other one
> UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries:
>
> ad0: 238474MB at ata0-master SATA300
> ad1: 157066MB at ata4-master UDMA100
>
> i've tried to test the drives' performances using the follow
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 06:45:01PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> > Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++
> > the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was
> > something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more
> > thoroug
Gary Kline wrote:
Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++
the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was
something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more
thoroughly.
This had been "awhile ago"... maybe ~5 years.
Bonnie++ is a benchmark, to actually 'test' your harddrive you should use some
tool of the manufacturer.
Cheers, Oliver
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:40:50PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++
> the only meeans of testing a hard drive
John Andrewartha wrote:
When you format a disk a percentage of the disk is reserved for a map so your
file can be found.
On a UFS it is called the SUPER BLOCKS a master and at least one slave.
Typically these blocks will take up to 8% or there abouts of the disk.
BTW I am not shouting when "SU
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:41:24 pm Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:35:28 +0200 (CEST)
>
> Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > but we are talking about disk capacity. filesystem is just kind of data
> > on disk, you may access disk without it like my video stream server.
> >
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:35:28 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but we are talking about disk capacity. filesystem is just kind of data on
> disk, you may access disk without it like my video stream server. actually
> only 1GB of each disk is allocated for filesystem (mirr
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:22:00 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > not a case of misrepresentations that I have found on network
> > attached hard disk storage devices and Firewire drives.
> > I have one that was expressly advertised on the package to be
> > 120 Gb capacity,
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:23:45 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Advertised sizes are for unformatted media. Each filesystem will use
> > different
>
> no. they use available space (in sectors) but counted in billions of bytes
> instead of 2^30 bytes
fair enough...but
no. they use available space (in sectors) but counted in billions of bytes
instead of 2^30 bytes
fair enough...but disk's useful capacity will be slightly
different after you format it in whatever filesystem you choose with whatever
options you choose to format.
but we are talking about disk ca
as 120 Gb and actually only has 117 Gb usable capacity.
Like 9Gb is enough for several operating systems. 3Gb is even
enough for an operating syste
Advertised sizes are for unformatted media. Each filesystem will use different
no. they use available space (in sectors) but counted in billions o
not a case of misrepresentations that I have found on network
attached hard disk storage devices and Firewire drives.
I have one that was expressly advertised on the package to be
120 Gb capacity, and in fact only 111Gb are available for storage.
common marketlie: telling capacity not in gigabyt
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:47:19 -0700
jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a utility for measuring the effective RPM of a hard disk?
> A software tackometer?
not sure, ultimatebootcd , as it has been suggested, may have some answers. For
reference, just get the drive model and get the full
As far as the 120gig != 111gig discrepancy, it sounds like the drive
manufacturer use 1 gig = 1,000,000,000 bytes instead of 1,073,741,824
bytes for their advertising. It looks better on the box. It gets messy
with drive advertisements as there's no required standard for how they
advertise a gi
On Sep 19, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Rob wrote:
Derek Ragona wrote:
Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility to check the drives speed
and performance. Most of these utilities also give you the drive
model and serial number as well. Look for a self-booting version
that is a cd-rom ISO, these usua
Derek Ragona wrote:
Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility to check the drives speed and
performance. Most of these utilities also give you the drive model and
serial number as well. Look for a self-booting version that is a cd-rom
ISO, these usually run FreeDOS to easily access the hardwa
At 07:47 PM 9/19/2007, jekillen wrote:
Hello;
Is there a utility for measuring the effective RPM of a hard disk?
A software tackometer?
I have IDE drives, SATA drives, both 7200 and 10,000 RPM,
as well as SCSI disks that are supposed to be running at 15k
RPM. I noticed that on the hard drive labe
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Gretz wrote:
Hey guys I am adding a hard drive to my FreeBSD 6.1 box and it stalls during
booting and makes a beeping noise. I know the hard drive is good because I just
swapped it out of another FreeBSD box…
So I’m kinda stumped, is there anyways to troubleshoot th
Each BIOS maps beep codes into a diagnostic message.
Also, are you getting video signal/BIOS on your monitor?
~BAS
http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm
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Each BIOS maps beep codes into a diagnostic message.
Also, are you getting video signal/BIOS on your monitor?
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On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 14:47 -0500, David J Brooks wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 March 2007 02:29:29 pm Jason Gretz wrote:
> > Hey guys I am adding a hard drive to my FreeBSD 6.1 box and it
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 02:29:29 pm Jason Gretz wrote:
> Hey guys I am adding a hard drive to my FreeBSD 6.1 box and it stalls
> during booting and makes a beeping noise. I know the hard drive is good
> because I just swapped it out of another FreeBSD box…
>
> So I’m kinda stumped, is there anyway
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:49:08PM -0500, Richard McIntyre wrote:
> Tom Judge wrote:
>
> >Richard McIntyre wrote:
> >
> >>I'm having a similar problem,
> >>Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
> >>status=51 error=40 LBA=181778119
> >>Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - RE
Thinking about this a bit more. Don't mount all your new partitions
before starting dump. Only mount the new root at /mnt. I think you
*can* mount them all in advance but there are two sets of mode bits
which apply to a mounted filesystem, those of the filesystem, and
those of its mount poi
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:49:08PM -0500, Richard McIntyre wrote:
> Tom Judge wrote:
>
> I've put a new disk into the system, The current disk is 200 GB, the new
> disk is 250 GB.
> If I run the command:
> dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/ad3 conv=noerror
>
> Will this copy the (changing the appropriate d
On Nov 7, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Richard McIntyre wrote:
Tom Judge wrote:
Richard McIntyre wrote:
I'm having a similar problem,
Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51 error=40 LBA=181778119
Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51 error=40 LBA=181
Tom Judge wrote:
Richard McIntyre wrote:
I'm having a similar problem,
Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51 error=40 LBA=181778119
Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51 error=40 LBA=181778119
I'm assuming that particular sector on the driv
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:03:31PM -0400, Richard McIntyre wrote:
> David Kelly wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Spiros Papadopoulos wrote:
>
> >>Since as you say everything is working, maybe it is a good idea to
> >>take a look and run the fsck command at least it may give y
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:03:31PM -0400, Richard McIntyre wrote:
> David Kelly wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Spiros Papadopoulos wrote:
> >
> >>Since as you say everything is working, maybe it is a good idea to
> >>take a look and run the fsck command at least it may give
Richard McIntyre wrote:
I'm having a similar problem,
Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51 error=40 LBA=181778119
Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51 error=40 LBA=181778119
I'm assuming that particular sector on the drive is dying, I have
On Oct 13, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Richard McIntyre wrote:
I'm having a similar problem,
Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51 error=40 LBA=181778119
Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51 error=40 LBA=181778119
I'm assuming that particular sector
David Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Spiros Papadopoulos wrote:
Since as you say everything is working, maybe it is a good idea to
take a look and run the fsck command at least it may give you some
more information, which you can post in order to get better answers
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:54:53PM +0100, Spiros Papadopoulos wrote:
>
> Since as you say everything is working, maybe it is a good idea to
> take a look and run the fsck command at least it may give you some
> more information, which you can post in order to get better answers
That too, but firs
On 12/10/06, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings,
I'm getting the following errors on the terminal:
ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=186691903
ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=84
LBA=186691903
g_vfs_done():ad1s1d[READ(offset=95586222080, length=4915
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Justin wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I'm getting the following errors on the terminal:
>>>
>>> ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=186691903
>>> ad1
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Justin wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm getting the following errors on the terminal:
>>
>> ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=186691903
>> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=84
>> LBA=186691903
>> g_vfs_done():ad1s1d[
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Justin wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm getting the following errors on the terminal:
>
> ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=186691903
> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=84
> LBA=186691903
> g_vfs_done():ad1s1d[READ(of
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:27:13AM -0400, Justin wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm getting the following errors on the terminal:
>
> ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=186691903
> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=84
> LBA=186691903
> g_vfs_done():ad1s1d[READ(offset=
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have a second hard drive in my docking station that gets mounted at each
> boot as /hd2.
>
> For the past few weeks, everytime I boot, I get the message
>
> "/hd2 not properly dismounted"
>
> I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that automatically mounts and un
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 08:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a second hard drive in my docking station that gets mounted at
> each boot as /hd2.
>
>For the past few weeks, everytime I boot, I get the message
>
>"/hd2 not properly dismounted"
>
>I have a script in /usr/local/etc/r
> Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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No personal attacks
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--- "Julian H. Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > For shame. A "your question is too dumb to have
> > written to our mailing list"? I hope you are not
> > trying to represent the great open arms of FreeBSD
> and
> > the questions mailing list. My Question is quite
>
> I repeat: You were in c
> For shame. A "your question is too dumb to have
> written to our mailing list"? I hope you are not
> trying to represent the great open arms of FreeBSD and
> the questions mailing list. My Question is quite
I repeat: You were in contravention of mailing list charter:
Cross posting is N
NMH wrote:
[ ... ]
For shame. A "your question is too dumb to have
written to our mailing list"? I hope you are not
trying to represent the great open arms of FreeBSD and
the questions mailing list. My Question is quite
appropriate for either list. Nor should someone even
be given the feeling thei
NMH wrote:
Hi all
I know hard drives tend to not run well when near
full. They have trouble performing self adjustments
(hardware), self defragging(unix/FFS) etc.. (as I can
express it) However, I need to find some documentation
or some help in explaining this better.
I am working with some pe
--- Julian Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reference:
> > From: NMH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:30:37 -0700 (PDT)
> > Message-id:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> NMH wrote:
> > Hi all
> > I know hard drives tend to not run well when
> near
>
Reference:
> From: NMH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:30:37 -0700 (PDT)
> Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NMH wrote:
> Hi all
> I know hard drives tend to not run well when near
> full. They have trouble performing self adjustments
> (hardware), self defragg
- Original Message -
From: "NMH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "hardware" ; "questions"
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Hard drive fullness limits information help request
> Hi all
> I know hard drives tend to not run well when near
> full. They have trouble performing self
Hi all
I know hard drives tend to not run well when near
full. They have trouble performing self adjustments
(hardware), self defragging(unix/FFS) etc.. (as I can
express it) However, I need to find some documentation
or some help in explaining this better.
I am working with some people who sto
--On Monday, April 11, 2005 12:30:37 PM -0700 NMH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi all
I know hard drives tend to not run well when near
full. They have trouble performing self adjustments
(hardware), self defragging(unix/FFS) etc.. (as I can
express it) However, I need to find some documentation
On Friday 28 January 2005 02:00, borg wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Someone gave me an IDE HD and he doesn't know how many
> MB buffer it is. I checked the manufacturer data
> sheet. And I found that this exact model comes with
> 2MB and 8MB buffer. Anyone knows if there is a tool or
> a built-in utilit
On 01/20/05 19:21:13, David Bear wrote:
I am receiving the following errors on my hard drive. This appears to
affect some file in /var/log. My question is twofold. 1) shouldn't
ufs
notice this sector as being unuseable and mark it offlimites? 2) if
not, is there a way to mark it so manually?
ad0
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:21:13PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
> I am receiving the following errors on my hard drive. This appears to
> affect some file in /var/log. My question is twofold. 1) shouldn't ufs
> notice this sector as being unuseable and mark it offlimites? 2) if
> not, is there a way to
David Bear wrote:
I am receiving the following errors on my hard drive. This appears to
affect some file in /var/log. My question is twofold. 1) shouldn't ufs
notice this sector as being unuseable and mark it offlimites? 2) if
not, is there a way to mark it so manually?
Sure, by default, modern dri
Laszlo Antal wrote:
Hi,
How big hard drive do I need for a Fbsd 5.3+Bind
Installation??
I have a 1.2gb hdd would it be big enough?
Thank you for all the advice
Laszlo
--lantal
Certainly should be large enough. A
"minimal" install is quite a bit less than 1.2G,
and even with full source and docs
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 2004-09-16]
> I understand that gbde requests a password before the partition can be
> mounted anyway so this simulates the same functionality of PointSEC,
> but since it is part of the OS, it seems that if someone has access to
> the OS, they could still get in. Is that ri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am writing to inquire about a hard drive encryption software that is
> compatible with FreeBSD. We have been using PointSEC with windows and am
> looking for a similar solution for FreeBSD. I see you have GEOM Based Disk
> Encryption (gbde) Which I h
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:03:37 -0700 (PDT)
peter lageotakes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hit the keyboard and punched:
> --- Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > -CURRENT (5.x) does have support for SATA, and may
> > (probably does)
> > work with the 8237. (I haven't tried it on this
> > motherb
--- Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Rickard [ISO-8859-1] Borgmäster
> wrote:
>
> > atapci1: port
> 0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 15.1 on
> > pci0
> > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
> > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1
> > [...]
> > ad0: 156334MB [317632/16/63] at
> ata0
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:35:52 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hit the keyboard and punched:
> FreeBSD 4.x doesn't have specific support for the VIA 8237, and so
> doesn't properly realize that it should be able to do the faster DMA
> modes.
>
> My MSI motherboard with the same VIA 82
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Rickard [ISO-8859-1] Borgmäster wrote:
atapci1: port 0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 15.1 on
pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1
[...]
ad0: 156334MB [317632/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133
ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
ad4: 1526
ow it looks like I'll have to invest in that 3ware raid card
after all.
Thanks,
Kevin
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From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 11:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hard Drive going bad? (hard error re
"Kevin Greenidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has it been doing this since you installed? Or was it working before?
Looks like a failed HDD from here.
> Here is the /etc/fstab and my dmesg output:
>
> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options DumpPass#
> /dev/ad0s1b
Here is the /etc/fstab and my dmesg output:
# DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass#
/dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1f /hom
"Kevin Greenidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I started seeing the error messages in my logs. When I
> googled the error some seem to think it may be a hardware
> issue and some seem to think it's o/s specific. Trying to
> see what's the general opinon. Running 4.9
It's either a failing HDD, or
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:17:50PM -0700, David Bear wrote:
> i just installed 4.9-rel. after having the system on for about two
> hours I got a console message that device ad0 had timed out. then the
> system froze.
>
> after a reboot (power off then on) the systems has been working fine.
>
>
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:05:55 + (GMT)
Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, David Bear wrote:
>
> > i just installed 4.9-rel. after having the system on for about two
> > hours I got a console message that device ad0 had timed out. then the
> > system froze.
>
>
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, David Bear wrote:
> i just installed 4.9-rel. after having the system on for about two
> hours I got a console message that device ad0 had timed out. then the
> system froze.
I believe Seagate has an utility you can use to check a drive. Also if the
drive was bought in the
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David,
You can try and run distributed.net on it for awhile - that should
give it a pretty good workout.
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===
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ISP/Marketing
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:28 am, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Could somebody please recommend a utility or script suitable for
> stressing a hard disk to check for possible errors?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Could somebody please recommend a utility or script suitable for
> stressing a hard disk to check for possible errors?
>>
You might look in your hard disk manufacturer's web site for testing
and diagnostic software. For example, Maxtor has something called
"Maxblast" and Seagate has "SeaToo
Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
Could somebody please recommend a utility or script suitable for
stressing a hard disk to check for possible errors?
Thanks,
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:28:49PM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Could somebody please recommend a utility or script suitable for
> stressing a hard disk to check for possible errors?
>
> Thanks,
>
Depending on what sort of errors you are looking for you can usually find
diagnostic utilit
Frederick Bowes wrote:
I've solved the problem and repreat it here for future generations reference
(: It appears that the MBR was infact corrupt, causing fdisk to get
confused...
the following command made the hd appear blank and let it all work again:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=2000
(Ye
>>> Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a
>>> certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do
> I had the same problem back in 4.5. I worked around the problem by
> formating the hard drive with a Win98(Oh Boy) recovery floppy then
> ...
Formattin
> I am guessing freebsd works out the correct drive geometry, but the bios
> is not! Interestingly though, when set to LBA, the head/cyl/sector count
> is equal to what the freebsd fdisk detects it to be.
This is exactly what I was experiencing. Thought I'd throw that out there,
best of luck to yo
>> Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios
>> detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot.
>> No matter what I do now, i cant get the system to boot off
>> the disk, i have even tried eraseing it with fdisk (freebsd
>> and dos versions). Does anyone know how I can sav
> I have a problem which i cannot seem to fix no matter what I do! I have a
> 120GB disk, which had windows XP/FreeBSD partions working fine on one
> computer. Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects
> a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do
>
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 23:01:21 +, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>> Hi :)
>>
>> Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ?
>> I don't need anything fancy, just something like "hdparm -t" under Linux.
>
On Monday 24 November 2003 00:01, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote:
> check out bonnie from the ports tree and make sure the test files are
> at least the size of your RAM. Otherwise you'll be measuring the speed
> of the caching system, which is pretty fast on BSD.
Thanks a lot :)
Regards.
Antoine
_
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ?
> I don't need anything fancy, just something like "hdparm -t" under Linux.
>
> Thanks.
Hi Antoine,
check out bonnie from the ports tree and make sure
Thanks, that worked perfectly.
Nathan Wheeler
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On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 17:54:07 -0700, Thomas Smith wrote:
> Thanks to those of you who replied to my previous question. However, I
> don't think the problem was Vinum entirely.
>
> - Is there a way to tell whether a device is aleady configured? That is,
> if I'm not sure ad1s1e is configure
> >
> > Is there a way to overwrite the /dev entries and mount points on the
> damaged
> > drive, reinstall system files, but still preserve my user data?
>
> I guess you could boot a fixit disk, mount your hard drive on it, and
> then rebuild...
Except I couldn't mount. There was too many erro
Dave Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have two systems. One system is version 4.0 and the other 4.8S.
>
> I took the drive out of the 4.8 machine and mounted the slices with
> the 4.0 machine. After the initial mount, which worked, I got
> errors on subsequent mount attempts.
> It actuall
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:03:22PM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ok, I guess I thought 14 was high but it's ok then? I'm not sure what is acceptible
> but I guess sometimes I thought it would go down instead of always being constant.
> So I assumed(ignorantly) that there is a disk i/o
Hello,
Ok, I guess I thought 14 was high but it's ok then? I'm not sure what is acceptible
but I guess sometimes I thought it would go down instead of always being constant.
So I assumed(ignorantly) that there is a disk i/o problem.
--
Jason
Dan Nelson said:
> In the last episode (Aug 05), Jaso
In the last episode (Aug 05), Jason Lieurance said:
> I have FreeBSD 4.7 server running a qmail-imap-squirrelmail email
> server and a apache 1.3.27 web server hosting 6 virtual domains that
> don't get a lot of traffic.
>
> Hardware is:
>
> P3 933MHz CPU
> 512 DDR ram
> Fujitsu MAN3184MP 18.2 GB
It would be nice if this information could be removed from the disklabel.
I guess if that's not feasible, a notation in the documentation would be
nice (I was confused about this about a year ago).
If it were up to me, I'd rather keep it in. I get sick of thunking my
documentation
database just
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Feb 07), Grant Peel said:
I am suppoed to have 1 RPM SCSIs on this box, but when I do a
disklable, it ells me 3600 RPM. Should I be worried?
The values in the disklabel are not used anymore. They were, way back
when disk latency was horrible and the
In the last episode (Feb 07), Grant Peel said:
> I am suppoed to have 1 RPM SCSIs on this box, but when I do a
> disklable, it ells me 3600 RPM. Should I be worried?
The values in the disklabel are not used anymore. They were, way back
when disk latency was horrible and the OS needed to know
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From: "Jud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dmitry Ternovoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Low Level Format (was No Subject)
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:50:
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:50:06 +0200 (EET), Dmitry Ternovoy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it is IDE. As it all the same to make? (Disk low level format or other
format)
Jerry McAllister is right: You want to back up your critical data *now*.
OK, who is the manufacturer? The reason I ask is to fin
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:08, Carlos Carnero wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the following messages that I just saw in my logs mean
> that my IDE hard drive is almost hosed right (at least
> a bit)?
I would say so.
You may want to back up all your important stuff.
Last time I saw this the machine limped along,
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