Re: cdrecord cannot see DVD-RW with ATAPICAM

2004-12-18 Thread László Károly
Zahemszky Gábor wrote: The subject said it: I've got a brand new ATAPI DVD-RW. In my kernel, there is ATAPICAM. I can see it with camcontrol, but, cannot see it in cdrecord -scanbus. I can write to it with growisofs as /dev/cd1, but cannot write it with cdrecord/cdrdao, and cannot reach i

Re: Problem with Intel(R) PRO/1000 card initialization

2004-12-18 Thread Pertti Kosunen
Android Andrew wrote: Hello! I have a problem with Intel(R) PRO/1000 card (Intel 82540) - it does not initialize properly during boot process. I've got these error messages in /var/log/messages: ... Dec 16 19:27:36 zahrouer kernel: pci2: on pcib2 Dec 16 19:27:36 zahrouer kernel: em0: port 0xb0

5.3 STABLE for production server?

2004-12-18 Thread PawelG
Hello, I've been using 4.X branch for production servers. Yesterday I bought box in datacenter with RAID 1 controller and operators in DC set up FreeBSD 5.X for me (instead 4.X i asked) because they have troubles with set up RAID controller runing on 4.X. I have two options: Posting wi

FreeBSD 5.3 upgrade on system using vinum.

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolaj Hansen
Hi all, After some very late evenings trying to figure out why vinum failed after an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3 i scouted the following document: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html This is the interesting part for this issue: (31 Oct 2004, updated on 12 Nov 2004) The vinum(4) subsyst

FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolaj Hansen
Hi all, Forget the first post. My server is still somewhat unstable after the upgrade attempts, and I appologize. Here goes the real deal: I tried to upgrade my existing 5.2.1 to a 5.3. I ran into severe problems with my vinum setup in trying to do so. I think i can answer why, the reason is st

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 20:52 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen: > [...] > I think I have to disagree calling muliple drives on a disk > "uncommon". In fact, I think I remember that being the way it was > demonstrated in an old version of the handbook. Here is my current > setup after rolling back to Fr

Re: 5.3 STABLE for production server?

2004-12-18 Thread Ísak Ben.
In my experience 5.3 is quite good for production and you should not be afraid to use it instead of 4.X I have been running a few 5.3 boxes in production for a while without problems and im planning to replace the rest of my servers with 5.3 -- Ísak Ben, http://www.isak.is -- Original

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 20:52 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote: > While some uncommon configurations, such as multiple vinum drives on a > disk, are not supported, it is generally backward compatible. Note that > for the geom(4)-aware vinum, its new userland control program, gvinum, > should be used,

Re: 5.3 STABLE for production server?

2004-12-18 Thread Eriq Lamar
I have been running apache, postfix, postgresql on a 5.3 mashine and the only problems i have faced was with sshd and time outs and even then most of the problem was with my named.conf. 5.3 seems to be doing great! much better than the ones before it, and i am on a dual amd system. The only down ti

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather: > > The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA > "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe that bedevils some of us under 5.3. When > that happens, your mirror will be knocked into a degraded state (half > of your mirrored plexes will

FreeBSD-4.11 Release Candidate 1 Available

2004-12-18 Thread Ken Smith
Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RC1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 4.11 Release Cycle. This will be the last of the FreeBSD 4.X releases. It is meant to give users a little more time to migrate to

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Mather
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 00:15 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather: > > > > The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA > > "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe that bedevils some of us under 5.3. When > > that happens, your mirro

Re: 5.3 STABLE for production server?

2004-12-18 Thread Brian Behlendorf
The apache.org mail server has been happier since we updated to a point on RELENG_5 after the recent fixes for if_em. We still need to apply the patch floating around for mpt, as without it performance on a RAID 1 set of disks is reported by bonnie at 1 MB/s, with the patch it's 50 MB/s. Other

Will there be a 5.3.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Brett Glass
I see that there is no scheduled release date for FreeBSD 5.4 (which is not a surprise; 5.3 was finalized so recently). However, there seem to be glitches and performance issues which I need to see resolved before I can move to 5.3.x (rather than 4.10 or 4.11) for production servers. Would anyone

initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2() panic in 5-STABLE

2004-12-18 Thread Sean Farley
Here is a panic on a 5-STABLE system. I was testing out a system (Dell PII 400MHz) my father retired. I thought heard some activity on the drive, so I ssh'd over to it then exited right away (time to leave for a movie :)). It panicked shortly afterward. Although it is on a different bus and proba

Re: Will there be a 5.3.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:00:57PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > I see that there is no scheduled release date for FreeBSD 5.4 > (which is not a surprise; 5.3 was finalized so recently). > However, there seem to be glitches and performance issues > which I need to see resolved before I can move to 5.

Re: Will there be a 5.3.1?

2004-12-18 Thread Xin LI
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:00:57PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > I see that there is no scheduled release date for FreeBSD 5.4 > (which is not a surprise; 5.3 was finalized so recently). > However, there seem to be glitches and performance issues > which I need to see resolved before I can move to 5.

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolaj Hansen
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:27:58PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 00:15 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > > Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather: > > > > > > The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA > > > "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe