suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Hi, I've ran into sort of a snag with building a 2T file server. Given all the good press here for 3ware and the talk to the guys at the CeBIT I decided to go for a 9550SX-LP8. With that I bought a ASUS serverboard: K8N-LR with 165 dual core opteron. In itself is this a combo that I thing woul

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Steven Hartland
The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good for its price and the later cards have better performance still apparently. N.B. Use the min stripe size when creating the array for max performance with this card under FreeBSD. Steve Willem Jan Withagen wrote: Hi, I've

"_malloc_prefork" not found

2006-08-23 Thread S.N.Grigoriev
Hi All, I've updated from amd64 6.1-RELEASE to 6-STABLE. All works fine. The only problem: when xmms or firefox starts the following message appears: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libpthread.so.2: Undefined symbol "_malloc_prefork" The Ports tree is fresh. Both xmms and firefox have been rebuilt. W

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Steven Hartland wrote: The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good for its price and the later cards have better performance still apparently. N.B. Use the min stripe size when creating the array for max performance with this card under FreeBSD. I was more thinking alo

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Steven Hartland
Willem Jan Withagen wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good for its price and the later cards have better performance still apparently. N.B. Use the min stripe size when creating the array for max performance with this card under FreeBS

Re: "_malloc_prefork" not found

2006-08-23 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, S.N.Grigoriev wrote: Hi All, I've updated from amd64 6.1-RELEASE to 6-STABLE. All works fine. The only problem: when xmms or firefox starts the following message appears: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libpthread.so.2: Undefined symbol "_malloc_prefork" The Ports tree is fres

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Bob Willcox
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:02:47PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > >The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good > >for its price and the later cards have better performance still apparently. > >N.B. Use the min stripe size when creating the arr

Re: "_malloc_prefork" not found

2006-08-23 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 07:17:40AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > Your system is not consistent. There is no _malloc_prefork() > (or _malloc_foofork()) in -stable; it only exists in -current. > You've got -current libraries (at least libpthread) on -stable. > libpthread is installed in /usr/lib in

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Martin
I find it hard to believe nobody has mentioned 3ware, they are a bit more expensive but you pay for top notch quality, stability... Their newer cards support PCI-X and SATA II /w hotswap. -Greg ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Greg Martin wrote: I find it hard to believe nobody has mentioned 3ware, they are a bit more expensive but you pay for top notch quality, stability... Their newer cards support PCI-X and SATA II /w hotswap. Well the message started by saying that I got caught by a 3ware card that did not want

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Bob Willcox
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:05:18AM -0500, Greg Martin wrote: > I find it hard to believe nobody has mentioned 3ware, they are a bit > more expensive but you pay for top notch quality, stability... > > Their newer cards support PCI-X and SATA II /w hotswap. BTW, just as a data point, my Areca cont

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Martin
> Well the message started by saying that I got caught by a 3ware card that did > not want to play nice with me. > So I guess nobody deared suggesting another 3ware card. > ;) My apologies, I now understand its a hardware issue. Before you toss the 3ware completely try the following (althou

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/06, Willem Jan Withagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've ran into sort of a snag with building a 2T file server. Given all the good press here for 3ware and the talk to the guys at the CeBIT I decided to go for a 9550SX-LP8. With that I bought a ASUS serverboard: K8N-LR with 165 dual

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Greg Martin wrote: Well the message started by saying that I got caught by a 3ware card that did not want to play nice with me. So I guess nobody deared suggesting another 3ware card. ;) My apologies, I now understand its a hardware issue. Before you toss the 3ware completely try the foll

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/06, Bob Willcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:02:47PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > >The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good > >for its price and the later cards have better performance still apparently.

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/23/06, Bob Willcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:02:47PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > > Steven Hartland wrote: > > >The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good > > >for its price

Junk Pointer Error

2006-08-23 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I compiled net/krb5 today on my 6.1-STABLE machine. As I tried to initialize Kerberos with '/usr/local/bin/kinit @ I got the following error: kinit in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) The same

Re: Junk Pointer Error

2006-08-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 23, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: I compiled net/krb5 today on my 6.1-STABLE machine. As I tried to initialize Kerberos with '/usr/local/bin/kinit @ I got the following error: kinit in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)

Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

2006-08-23 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:07:45PM +0300, Todorov @ Paladin wrote: > Also - why portupgrade is not always aware of > previously chosen options for a port build? > It depends. If options are OPTIONS (in the ports sense), they are saved and independent of portupgrade. If options are makefile optio

Re: Junk Pointer Error

2006-08-23 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chuck, Am 23.08.2006 um 21:25 schrieb Chuck Swiger: Sure your hardware is OK? Try running memtest86 or a hardware diagnostic from your vendor, and double-check your fans & PSU... Hmm, I fear I'm never sure... But I'll try to compile krb5 on

Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

2006-08-23 Thread Doug Barton
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:07:45PM +0300, Todorov @ Paladin wrote: >> Also - why portupgrade is not always aware of >> previously chosen options for a port build? >> > It depends. If options are OPTIONS (in the ports sense), they > are saved and independent of portupgrade.

Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

2006-08-23 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:23:00PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > In practice, however, pretty much all software nowadays depends on > shared libraries, so it's reasonable to do a "pkg_delete -a" after > upgrading to a new major version of FreeBSD, and then reinstall all > of the ports you us

Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

2006-08-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Greg Byshenk wrote: As a possible point of clarification, my comments earlier (and, I suspect similar comments of others) were not meant to imply that one should not rebuild ports after a major upgrade, but only that one need not do so _before_ upgrading. [...probabl

Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

2006-08-23 Thread Helge Oldach
Chuck Swiger: >FreeBSD's COMPAT stuff will let you run binaries >compiled against an older version of FreeBSD just fine for almost all >circumstances. However, as soon as you try to install a new port >which depends on something already installed, or upgrade anything, >you pretty much real

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:23:00AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good Many many years ago I bought a HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller. Thought its a good deal because it was cheap. Thought, an ATA interface can't be that complicat

Re: "_malloc_prefork" not found

2006-08-23 Thread S.N.Grigoriev
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:17:40 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, S.N.Grigoriev wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I've updated from amd64 6.1-RELEASE to 6-STABLE. > > All works fine. The only problem: when xmms or > > firefox starts the following message appears

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/24/06, Andreas Klemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:23:00AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good Many many years ago I bought a HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller. Thought its a good deal because it was c