Re: laptop question...

On Sunday, 18 September 2005 at 11:59:37 -0700, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: > I'm about to purchase a sager np3880 laptop: > > http://www.discountlaptops.com/index.php?section=specs&model_id=1176&category_id=&category_theme=c1 > > and want to know if there might be any problems with the hardware > especi

Re: My CD Writers are detected as CD-ROM

On Monday, 19 September 2005 at 18:15:59 -0400, John Do wrote: > Anyone know how to fix this? No, not if you don't say what your problem is. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For mo

Re: howto add a user with more then 16 characters

On Monday, 19 September 2005 at 11:00:26 -0300, Eros wrote: > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org On Monday, 19 September 2005 at 12:36:52 -0300, Eros wrote: > To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org On Monday, 19 September 2005 at 13:01:37 -0300, Eros wrote: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Hi all, >

"BGL", Giant and kernel lockups

On Saturday, 1 October 2005 at 4:11:25 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:58:14PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote: >> I love FreeBSD. I have been using it since 2.x. I have never had any >> problems with it. Rock Solid. Never a single kernel panic. >> >> Then I come across this

Re: Which MySQL version best to use and with/without linux threads?

On Monday, 3 October 2005 at 10:37:21 -0800, Peter A. Giessel wrote: > On 10/3/2005 09:41, Jared Kuolt seems to have typed: >> There really isn't any reason not to >> anymore since everything is backwards compatible. > > I've found that Dovecot 1.0a3 has a problem with 4.1.x, Can you give more de

Re: Which MySQL version best to use and with/without linux threads?

On Wednesday, 5 October 2005 at 7:51:33 -0800, Peter Giessel wrote: > On Wednesday, October 05, 2005, at 07:31AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Monday, 3 October 2005 at 10:37:21 -0800, Peter A. Giessel wrote: >>> On 10/3/200

Re: Best Way to Install FreeBSD on Gateway G6-400

On Thursday, 6 October 2005 at 1:43:13 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Could you please offer some advice on how I can remove Windows XP > Pro from an old and slow Gateway 400 Mhz computer, and install > FreeBSD? This is described in the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/b

Re: What's a good MySQL utitlity?

[many empty lines removed] It's not clear who wrote what here. The attributions below are probably incorrect. On Monday, 10 October 2005 at 11:38:11 -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: > * REPLY SEPARATOR * > On 10/10/2005 11:36:28 AM, Gerard Seibert Replied: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:59:16 +100

Re: Signal 11

On Wednesday, 12 October 2005 at 15:59:39 +1000, pb wrote: > Hi all > Can anyone tell me what a 'signal 11' is Signals are a kind of software interrupt. This particular one is called SIGSEGV, or a segmentation violation. This means that the processor has caught the program attempting to do somet

Re: Moving down from amd64 to i386 ??

On Wednesday, 12 October 2005 at 9:27:17 +0200, Stefan Cars wrote: > Hi! > > We are having troubles with MySQL 4.1 on a amd64 (it's crashing > randomly with Seg fault, signal 11. gdb bt says: Cannot access > memory at address 0x8000). We have got information saying > this is a 64bit relate

Re: Mysql server not able to stay running on anything but Linux?

Note the From: address. On Wednesday, 12 October 2005 at 13:16:22 -0700, NMH wrote: > > I am stuck with a delema and I feel like a damn troll. But.. I have > a Mysql Database that I posted about earlier. It seems that it is > only able to not die by running on BSD 4.11 with Linux Threads. My > bos

MySQL crashes on amd64 (was: Moving down from amd64 to i386 ??)

[Sequence recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 13 October 2005 at 17:56:11 +0200, Stefan Cars wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 12 October 2005 at 9:27:17 +0200, Stefan Cars wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> &

Re: 2 keyboards, 2 mice, 2 monitors with 1 PC; possible?

On Thursday, 13 October 2005 at 14:21:44 -0700, Rob wrote: > > I'm using 5-Stable right now. > > I wonder if FreeBSD allows me to have two independent users working > on the same PC, by using two monitors, two keyboards and two mice, > all connected to a single PC. > > xorg supports dual-head, whic

Re: test

On Saturday, 15 October 2005 at 17:56:19 -0400, Teo De Las Heras wrote: > test > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list Please do *not* send "test" messages to FreeBSD questions. Please also don't respond to such messages (this one response s

Re: 5.5 hardware support

On Sunday, 29 April 2007 at 17:56:23 -0800, Harry Veltman wrote: > Does 5.5 support my ELSA GLoria Synergy 8 MByte, Driver version 5.36.00.382, > OpenGL version 1.1 2.01.14.128 video card? I purchased and installed > version 4.8 several years ago, but it didn't seem to like the video card. This i

Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

On Monday, 30 April 2007 at 11:02:54 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to create a pristine xorg.conf, but I've been unable to > find proper values for HorizSync and VertRefresh for my Dell Latitude > D610. > > I've tried the values presented in MonitorsDB >

Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

On Tuesday, 1 May 2007 at 9:28:27 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > On 5/1/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Monday, 30 April 2007 at 11:02:54 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: >>> I'm trying to create a pristine xorg.conf, but I

Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

On Tuesday, 1 May 2007 at 9:01:26 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > On 4/30/07, Erik Osterholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Could you post your Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf? When Theory != >> Practice, it's often helpful to have information like this to help >> determine what went wrong, so that in

Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

On Thursday, 3 May 2007 at 9:25:54 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > On 5/3/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, 1 May 2007 at 9:01:26 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: >>> On 4/30/07, Erik Osterholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

On Thursday, 3 May 2007 at 11:16:04 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > On 5/3/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thursday, 3 May 2007 at 9:25:54 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: >>> On 5/3/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PRO

Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

On Thursday, 3 May 2007 at 13:13:07 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > On 5/3/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK. Either you give me information on what happens, or I'll drop the >> case. What warning message? > > Please read the

Re: dual monitors?

On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 18:15:52 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? Yes. > if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 > seperate adapters? I'm using separate adaptors. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/grog/hardware.html

Re: dual monitors?

On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 17:22:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2007, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: If you follow up on something I wrote, please copy me. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for more details. >> On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 at 18:15:52 -0

Keyboard problems with xorg 7.2 and Dell Inspiron 5100?

I've just upgraded my Inspiron 5100 to the latest and greatest X.org release, 7.2. Using the standard configuration options (either no config file, or the one generated by X -configure), most keys on the keyboard don't react. I've ran xev against the server and find that the only keys that react

Re: 2TB (and above) Disk

On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 at 17:09:33 +0200, Dave Raven wrote: > Hi all, > Firstly I am using FreeBSD 4, I know it's not supported but > hopefully someone has some experience with large disks on 4. Yes. Various geometry issues limit them to 1 TB in size. Greg -- When replying to this messag

FreeBSD-newbies shutting down? (was: no freebsd-beginners list?)

On Saturday, 16 April 2005 at 20:11:18 -0400, Brian Kinsey wrote: > Your request to the freebsd-newbies mailing list > > Subscription request > > has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the following > reason for rejecting your request: > > "The freebsd-newbies list is bein

Re: FreeBSD Culture

On Monday, 18 April 2005 at 23:24:32 +0200, Stine Madsen wrote: > FreeBSD Culture > We are four undergraduate students (1st year) who have chosen Organizational > Culture and FreeBSD as the subject for our major written project. The > underlying assumption for our project is that the FreeBSD commun

Re: Vinum (Again)

On Friday, 22 April 2005 at 16:11:55 -0400, Timothy Radigan wrote: > Hi all, > > Ok, I'm still having trouble with vinum, I got it to load at start, but the > vinum.autostart="YES" in /boot/loader.conf returns a "vinum: no drives > found" message. > > I had the mirrored set up and running before th

Re: "The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

On Friday, 29 April 2005 at 14:02:00 -0400, Darrel wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web >> page >> or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge >> computer books are out of date al

Re: Learning UNIX internals

On Saturday, 7 May 2005 at 21:13:33 +0300, Sergey S. Ropchan wrote: > >> On 5/7/05, Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi: >>> >>> I was thinking of getting one of these two books. I want to learn >>> more about how UNIX and in particular, FreeBSD work. Has anyone read >>> either of these

Re: Is this a high interrupt rate for nics?

On Sunday, 8 May 2005 at 9:02:08 -0400, M. Parsons wrote: > Freebsd-5.3 SMP Kernel. Polling enabled. > > bash-2.05b$ vmstat -i > interrupt total rate > irq5: ep02937064 1 > irq11: ed0 298318862165 > irq10:

Re: WinTV and bktr

On Sunday, 8 May 2005 at 12:36:58 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On 5/7/2005 7:58 PM William Bloom wrote: > >> I've installed a WinTV PVR 150MCE card in my Dell 4550, ... > > As far as I know, the new MCE cards are not supported yet. This is > why I bought a PVR-250 card. I think the older cards

Re: Hardware RAID 5 - Need vinum?

On Tuesday, 10 May 2005 at 16:05:50 -0500, Tony Shadwick wrote: > I've worked with RAID5 in FreeBSD in the past, with either vinum or a > hardware raid solution. Never had any problems either way. > > I'm now building a server for myself at home, and I'm creating a large > volume to store video.

Re: syslog messages

On Monday, 23 May 2005 at 10:43:52 +0530, ananth.g wrote: > hi, > when i get an error or warning in my system, a mail is sent to the > root user. does anyone know how to change the settings so that the > mail is sent to my mail id instead of localhost id ? Take a look at syslog.conf(5). Greg --

Re: drivers

On Friday, 27 May 2005 at 19:29:39 -0300, Augusto Tobas Bierwerth wrote: > First of all I must admit that I was doubting whether to send this e-mail > to this address or to the one for nOObs. Nowhere is a good place to send 10 MB of illegible log output. Please don't. > I was considering to ins

Re: Debugging Threaded Applications

On Saturday, 28 May 2005 at 15:13:06 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > Are there any working tools available for debugging a threaded > application in 5.3/5.4? Ktrace works fine but doesn't identify the > threads so its almost impossible to figure out whats going on in a > complex threaded application.

Re: drivers

On Monday, 30 May 2005 at 9:39:04 +0930, Tim Aslat wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2005 08:42:26 +0930 > Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Nowhere is a good place to send 10 MB of illegible log output. Please >> don't. > > I agree. >

Re: drivers

On Sunday, 29 May 2005 at 17:53:14 -0700, Vizion wrote: > On Sunday 29 May 2005 17:40, the author Tim Aslat contributed to the dialogue > on- > Re: drivers: > >> On Mon, 30 May 2005 10:03:03 +0930 >> >> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: System Panics and Core Dump help

On Wednesday, 1 June 2005 at 2:25:56 -0500, Denny White wrote: > > Just trying to get a heads up if I'm going about > this in the right way, if I've understood what > I've read and applied, outlined below. > I read an article at Onlamp on how to prepare > for system panics and core dumps. Article

Problems with gif tunnels

I've just installed an ADSL line, and I'm trying to route a class C network. For some reason the ISP does this kind of routing via a GRE tunnel, and I'm having the devil's own job getting it to work. Here's the current situation: 1. ADSL line is up and running. I have a /30 with the following

Re: bypassing forbidden

On Thursday, 27 March 2003 at 20:44:37 -0500, David Banning wrote: > I have had a number of ports that are marked as security problems > or are forbidden. Can I bypass this warning somehow and still > compile? At your own risk. In the Makefile you'll find something like: FORBIDDEN= "Securit

Re: PANIC: vinum / atacontrol (5.0-STABLE / 4.8-RC2)

On Saturday, 29 March 2003 at 10:45:43 +, james wrote: > Hi Greg > > Thanks for your response! > >> #6 0xc0220332 in dsioctl (dev=0xc1383200, cmd=0x8004646d, data=0xcb307d58 "\001", >> flags=0x2, sspp=0xc1328568) >> at ../../kern/subr_diskslice.c:356 >> #7 0xc021fd5b in diskioctl (dev=0x

Re: Best X configurator for laptops?

On Sunday, 30 March 2003 at 8:44:34 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 8:29 AM -0800 3/30/03, Nathan Kinkade wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:59:59AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: >>> Hi again. I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, now running 4.7. >>> xf86cfg and xf86config both give (different) unus

Re: Mitsubishi Diamond Touch keyboard problem

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Monday, 31 March 2003 at 10:14:45 +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:16, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 28 March 2003 at 14:13:45 +1030, W. Sierke wrot

Re: Question about vinum and contents of /dev/vinum

On Tuesday, 1 April 2003 at 16:16:38 -0800, John Fox wrote: > I am copying files over the network -- from a failing drive in production > box to a new drive in my workstation, with the intent of swapping these > drives. > > I have been testing transfers with tar, and ran into some problems when >

Re: vinum, rsync, or rdump? which is better for me?

On Friday, 4 April 2003 at 20:47:36 -0800, Christopher Turner wrote: > Hello, > > I'm setting up a new machine that will need hard drive redundancy. I'm > looking for the most efficient way to keep a second hard drive that i could > quickly use to return the machine to functionality(without a dis

Re: How much RAM is needed for FreeBSD

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Incorrect quotation On Saturday, 5 April 2003 at 14:33:37 -0600, Alfonso Romero wrote: > On Saturday, April 05, 2003 10:23 AM, Clemens Jaeger wrote: >> >> I was looking for information : how much RAM is needed to run FreeBSD o

Re: Matrox Millenium p750 three-head in FreeBSD ?

On Friday, 6 June 2003 at 15:26:37 -0700, Josh Brooks wrote: > > Hello, > > I am considering buying a Matrox p750, that allows you to do triple-head > video on your PC. > > How does freebsd work with these multi-head video products from matrox ? I haven't heard of the p750 before. The two-head g

Re: Camera Support

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Wednesday, 28 May 2003 at 12:02:56 -0400, emily chew wrote: > Hullo. > I've got a digital camera, a Samsung Digimax 200, which is not > recognized by gtkam. The output of 'uname -a' is as follows: > >

Re: Testing...NO CONTENTS...

On Wednesday, 28 May 2003 at 21:24:27 -0400, Xpression wrote: > Please don't send test mail to the normal FreeBSD lists. It wastes a lot of money around the world. There's a special test list for this purpose. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you do

Re: Does Gated come with version 5?

On Thursday, 29 May 2003 at 9:11:10 +, DanB wrote: > Does Gated come with version 5? No, it's no longer free software. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, s

Re: Having problems with fixit floppy mounting filesystems

On Thursday, 29 May 2003 at 21:30:37 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: > I was installing an additional hard disk and I believe I commented out > the wrong line in fstab or typo'ed something. The /usr filesystem is > not mounted. The machine will not boot to a command prompt so I can > repair it. It c

Re: Vinum performance

On Friday, 30 May 2003 at 11:16:06 +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Using Vinum on 4.7-RELEASE-p10, I wonder what can be done to optimize > performance. So far I am not impressed but perhaps I did not configure > Vinum optimal, grateful for any hints thanks. You haven't said what your problem is

Re: How to get source code?

On Friday, 30 May 2003 at 17:25:50 -0700, John Li wrote: On Friday, 30 May 2003 at 17:27:42 -0700, John Li wrote: Once is enough. > I need the source code for BSD (to be used with Sun Ultr60). How > can I just download the source code without going through all the > installation steps? It's all

Re: Help..can I use DUMP? my drive is dying - VINUM ?

On Saturday, 31 May 2003 at 13:39:49 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a one and only drive dying on a server (OK - to use vinum is to > be smarter than I am). Anyways I have unsuccessfully tried to image the > drive using some util that is recommended (?) Can I dump the slices to a > remote

Re: Vinum performance

On Monday, 2 June 2003 at 17:48:23 -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 07:48:45PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 30 May 2003 at 11:16:06 +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >>> Using Vinum on 4.7-RELEASE-p10, I wonder what can be done

Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

On Monday, 9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, freeBSD wrote: > I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming > a raid-5 volume using Vinum and the last one is just fooling around > without any purpose. > > Can I add this 170GB to the raid5 volume in any way at all? There's

Re: vinum-booting is working?

On Tuesday, 10 June 2003 at 2:20:29 +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Hi all, > > just read the 5.1-release notes and I'm not sure what the line "The root > file system can now be located on a vinum(4) volume." really means. > > Is it now possible to boot from a degraded 5 plex or a mirror? Y

Re: very slow NIC

On Tuesday, 10 June 2003 at 18:10:19 -0600, TOPCAT CONSULTING wrote: > I have an ethernet card that just doesn't seem to be performing well in > both directions (in and out)when I access this NIC from another > machine on the LAN, file transfer is extremely fast, but when I use this > machine t

Re: Vinum question

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Wednesday, 11 June 2003 at 10:51:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm considering migrating a Linux server over to 4.8-RELEASE. The > Linux server has a bootable software RAID set up, where there

Re: RAID, Vinum and different disksizes

On Wednesday, 11 June 2003 at 20:56:22 +0200, Mark Rowlands wrote: > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 2:02 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 9 June 2003 at 17:10:37 +0200, freeBSD wrote: >>> I have three 120GB disks and one 170GB disk. The first three is forming >

Re: Help with vinum configuration

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Lines wrapped. On Thursday, 12 June 2003 at 20:11:07 +0800, Francis Vidal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE on an Pentium III machine. I'm trying to > configure a RAID-5 storage consisting of 5 80GB IDE drives connec

Re: VINUM disk types

On Friday, 13 June 2003 at 15:40:58 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i am building a db server which has 1 IDE (40GB) and 2 SCSI (18GB each) HDD > > each disk has 1/2 phys ram swap > > the rest of the scsi's is in RAID 1 and holds the data (/data) > > the sytem is on the 40 GB IDE > > my question

Re: access symlink in ftpd??

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Overlong lines. On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:44:13 +0200, Andre wrote: On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:45:27 +0200, Andre wrote: On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:46:56 +0200, Andre wrote: On Friday, 20 June 2003 at 12:46:59 +0200, A

Re: Setup of a software RAID-1 to an existing system?

On Monday, 23 June 2003 at 5:00:23 +0300, Johan Paul wrote: > Hi all! > > This is repost from freebsd-newbies mailing list since this might be a > more suitable mailing list for my question. > > I am pretty new to FreeBSD but thought it might be a nice idea to > migrate from a Linux server to a Fr

Re: Can the FreeBSD handbook be sold?

On Thursday, 26 June 2003 at 12:50:04 +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:53:28AM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I came across this: >> >> http://store.fultus.com/product_info.php?cPath=5_10&products_id=1 >> >> These guys are selling a pdf version of the handbook fo

Re: How do you load a program like gated from gated.gz file

On Monday, 7 July 2003 at 1:44:07 +, DanB wrote: > How do you load a program like gated from gated.gz file. Depends on what you mean by "load". .gz is an extension normally put on gzipped files, so the answer would be "with gzip". But that probably doesn't answer the question you wanted to

Re: netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7

On Tuesday, 8 July 2003 at 2:55:34 +, DanB wrote: > inet 205.238.xx.1 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7. Need a > netmask convertor to change 0xfffc to 255.255.xxx.xxx. Anybody > know of a good one? Aaah. The other answers explained the question, which wasn't immediately obv

Reviewers required for simplified Chinese translations of FreeBSDbooks

I've been approached by a group in China who want to translate "The Complete FreeBSD" into Chinese. They've translated two sample chapters, and we now need reviewers who can assess the quality of the translation. If you're a native Chinese speaker and are interested in reviewing these chapters, p

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Friday, 11 July 2003 at 21:45:34 -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: > Does vinum support hot-swapping? I've skimmed through the handbook > and it isn't immediately clear. Depends on what you mean. Vinum isn'

Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array

On Saturday, 12 July 2003 at 8:42:17 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > Is it possible to just 'plug-in' another disk to a vinum RAID-5 > array and let vinum start building a new index based on the new > volume-size? No, sorry. You can (forcibly) add another plex (I think), but it will involve comp

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

On Friday, 11 July 2003 at 22:21:19 -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: >> Depends on what you mean. Vinum isn't a hardware device driver, so it >> doesn't need to understand hot swapping. If you hot swap a drive, >> Vinum handles the resulting events correctly. > > So if I have a drive fail, say in a RAI

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 17:09:29 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote: >>>>> There is a nice little tool for Outlook users, [...] >>>>> >>>>> http://ho

Re: Arla

On Thursday, 14 October 2004 at 13:05:57 -0700, Damian Sobieralski wrote: > > I hope this is the correct place to post this. I'm a recent convert > to FreeBSD (about 2 years ago). I'll spare the details (potential flame > bait). I'll just say it is so nice to have ONE distribution of my O/S > and

Re: Compatible NIC

On Friday, 29 October 2004 at 18:09:25 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/29/04 3:27:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> I just voiced my opinion. If you want to use them, feel free. Use 5.2.1. >>> with the rl driver. Have the slowest server on the bloc

Don't feed the (your word here): (was: Compatible NIC)

On Sunday, 31 October 2004 at 11:54:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/31/04 5:00:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A member of the Gustapo said: This is offensive. >> Kris was just asking you to respect the charter >> of the mailing list. I've lo

Re: vinum disklabel FBSD 5.2.1....

On Sunday, 31 October 2004 at 14:03:18 +0100, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote: > > On 31 okt 2004, at 07:41, matt virus wrote: > >> matt virus wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> I have (8) maxtor 160gb drives I plan on constructing a vinum raid5 >>> array with. >>> the devices are: >>> ad4ad11 >>> Al

Re: Vinum 1TB filesystem limit questions

On Monday, 8 November 2004 at 1:01:04 -0600, matt virus wrote: > Hi All - > > with some help from people on this list, i managed to get vinum and > raid5 all figured out! > > I had 4 * 160gb raid5 array running perfectly. When i ventured home > this past weekend, i found another ATA controller a

Re: Will a SD card reader solve this problem?

On Wednesday, 10 November 2004 at 8:58:27 -0500, Ada Cheng wrote: > Good morning, > I am trying to connect my Minolta Z2 camera with my box, currently > running 4.10 stable. > > ... > > After rebuilding the kernel and rebooting, I tested the configuration by > plugging in my camera. The fo

Re: Will a SD card reader solve this problem?

On Thursday, 11 November 2004 at 13:40:22 +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:43, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 10 November 2004 at 8:58:27 -0500, Ada Cheng wrote: >>> Good morning, >>> I am trying to connect my Min

Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Text wrapped. On Thursday, 11 November 2004 at 12:00:52 +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > appears it's not restricted to that: > > Let's make a fresh start with vin

Re: Please take this somewhere else (was RE: difference

On Wednesday, 10 November 2004 at 23:31:49 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On Wednesday, November 10, 2004 8:20 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> Also, there is a difference between censorship and taking an action >> against abuse of persons. The behavior indicated is indeed abusive. > > That is a

Re: Want to use two PCCards on a laptop

On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 17:02:40 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. I want to use a laptop as a router under 4.10. I > have two PCcards that it recognizes, but when starting up, after > connecting to the first card, I get the message: >pccard0: Can no attach more than one chil

Re: Want to use two PCCards on a laptop

On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 17:45:42 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 12:03 PM +1030 11/16/04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 17:02:40 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: >>> Greetings again. I want to use a laptop as a router under 4.10. I

Re: Want to use two PCCards on a laptop

On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 18:09:17 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 12:28 PM +1030 11/16/04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 17:45:42 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: >>> At 12:03 PM +1030 11/16/04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >&g

Re: vinum problems

On Tuesday, 16 November 2004 at 18:51:38 +, Chris Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've just built a machine with a vinum root successfully. All vinum > sets show that they are up and working. There are two ATA disks in a > RAID1 root formation. > > Some questions? How about some details first? There

Re: vinum problems

On Tuesday, 16 November 2004 at 23:10:22 -1000, Gary Dunn wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:51, Chris Smith wrote: > [snip] >> ... Can you boot off a striped volume and will it >> benefit me at all making it a striped volume at all rather than a >> concat? > > I don't think you can boot off a vinum

Re: Question about old FreeBSD versions

[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Tuesday, 23 November 2004 at 15:47:23 -0800, Peter Trinh wrote: > Hi FreeBSD Administrator, > > I am working on some FreeBSD driver code that was written a few > years back for FreeBSD 4.3. I already d

Re: GEOM vs. vinum in FreeBSD 5.3

On Wednesday, 24 November 2004 at 15:10:47 +0800, Rene C. Mendoza wrote: > Hi! > > I'm supposed to mirror 2 similar disk drives using FreeBSD 5.3 The > thing is, I am confused which utility to use: vinum, gvinum, or geom. > As I understand it, geom is still fairly new but very promising. GEOM is

Re: Key mapping in X.org

On Saturday, 27 November 2004 at 20:08:39 +0100, Kees Plonsz wrote: > Josh Paetzel wrote: > >> I'm trying to set up a keybinding in X. I would like Right Shift + >> Enter to be treated the same way that Enter is when pressed alone. >> Right now pressing Right Shift + Enter doesn't appear to do any

Re: Key mapping in X.org

On Saturday, 27 November 2004 at 23:53:06 +0100, Kees Plonsz wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >  A keyboard type was not specified, and the vendor ID string, >   "The X.Org Foundation" is not recognized. > > You got scared off by that warning mess

Re: vinum limits disk size to 255MB

On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 0:28:01 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up vinum on a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 > box. The system is installed on da0. I want to use three 18G SCSI > drives to create a vinum volume. > > For some reason vinum believes the disks

Re: vinum raid5: newfs throws an error

On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 3:05:31 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Hi all, > > now that I can use the full capacity of my disks, I'm stuck again. I'm > trying to set up a raid5 from three SCSI disks (I know that a serious > raid5 should use five disks or more, but I have to make do with three

Don't send test messages to -questions (was: test don't read)

On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 23:28:21 +, agostinho wrote: > test Please don't do this. It gets sent to tens of thousands of people round the world. There's a special list for sending test messages. Please use it instead. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original reci

Re: vinum raid5: newfs throws an error

On Monday, 6 December 2004 at 23:44:59 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: >> There was once an error in the stripe size calculations that meant >> that there were holes in the plexes. Maybe it's still there (old >> Vinum is not bei

Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array

On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 0:07:04 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 09:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> Is it possible to just 'plug-in' another disk to a vinum RAID-5 >>> array and let vinum start building a new index based on the n

Re: Expanding a Vinum RAID-5 array

On Saturday, 12 July 2003 at 20:46:14 -0600, Tillman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:29:25PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:36:29AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 0:07:04 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote:

Re: vinum and hot-swapping

On Sunday, 13 July 2003 at 4:45:08 -0500, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > ** Reply to note from "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 12 Jul 2003 > 17:13:29 +0930 > > >> The real performance penalty for RAID-5 is simply that writes require >>

Re: ATI-Radeon-9000

On Wednesday, 9 July 2003 at 17:55:07 -0700, cloper wrote: > lewiz wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:03:46PM -0700, cloper wrote: >>> I have a Dell Latitude D600 Laptop with the ATI Radeon 9000 video >>> chipset, with FreeBSD-4.8 w/ XFree86-4.3, yet I still can not get X to >> >> I've had it wo

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

On Thursday, 10 July 2003 at 18:12:14 -0500, Chris wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:06 pm, John Mills wrote: > Snippage... > Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there?

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