Re: bootless!

2009-10-20 Thread Andriy Gapon
Randy, just something possibly useful for the future. Not sure if it really could have helped you here but perhaps it could: http://anonsvn.h3q.com/projects/freebsd-patches/wiki/manageBE I personally don't use manageBE, but I have a very similar setup/config. I perform all the boot-environment

FreeBSD and SATA Port Multipliers

2009-10-20 Thread Steve Polyack
I have a system running FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 that contains 3x Sil3124 PCI-E SATA controller cards. Each card has 3x Sil3726 Port Multipliers attached (5 slots per SATA PM). The problem is that the disks are often not all detected by FreeBSD, even though the controller Option ROMs list all of the i

Re: FreeBSD and SATA Port Multipliers

2009-10-20 Thread Steve Polyack
Steve Polyack wrote: I have a system running FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 that contains 3x Sil3124 PCI-E SATA controller cards. Each card has 3x Sil3726 Port Multipliers attached (5 slots per SATA PM). The problem is that the disks are often not all detected by FreeBSD, even though the controller Option

Interesting problem updating samba after 7->8 transition

2009-10-20 Thread Ivan Voras
I upgraded (via source) a system from 7-stable to 8-stable and Samba now fails in a strange way. Starting the executable results in an immediate ABORT: ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ./smbd Abort And running ktrace on it results in an extremely short ktrace.out: ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ktrace ./s

Re: Interesting problem updating samba after 7->8 transition

2009-10-20 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:35:39PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > I upgraded (via source) a system from 7-stable to 8-stable and Samba now > fails in a strange way. Starting the executable results in an immediate > ABORT: > > ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ./smbd > Abort > > And running ktrace on it resu

Re: Interesting problem updating samba after 7->8 transition

2009-10-20 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:35:39 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: I upgraded (via source) a system from 7-stable to 8-stable and Samba now fails in a strange way. Starting the executable results in an immediate ABORT: ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ./smbd Abort And running ktrace on it results in an extremel

Re: Interesting problem updating samba after 7->8 transition

2009-10-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Ronald Klop wrote: > Read about the latest ERRATA NOTICES's. There is something with > PIE-library's (which are used by Samba) which defaults to doesn't-work > in 8 and still works in 7. People are working on a real fix for 8. > In the ERRATA NOTICES is a setting which you can set to does-work. >

Re: FreeBSD and SATA Port Multipliers

2009-10-20 Thread Alexander Motin
Steve Polyack wrote: > I have a system running FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 that contains 3x Sil3124 PCI-E > SATA controller cards. Each card has 3x Sil3726 Port Multipliers > attached (5 slots per SATA PM). The problem is that the disks are often > not all detected by FreeBSD, even though the controller Opti

Re: FreeBSD and SATA Port Multipliers

2009-10-20 Thread grarpamp
In the somewhat related dept... The SiI3124 and SiI3726 seem to be *really* popular chipsets for low cost JBOD setups so I'm sure any work done towards this will be a win. The only other chip I see a lot of is the Marvell 88SX6041 and 88SX6081. Any others, particularly of the eight port generic ca

Re: FreeBSD and SATA Port Multipliers

2009-10-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
FWIW you can buy the case and accessories for a very reasonable cost. just click further through the blog and they link the manufacturer. its extremely cheap 90tb of zfs Dean grarpamp wrote: In the somewhat related dept... The SiI3124 and SiI3726 seem to be *really* popular chipsets for

Re: FreeBSD and SATA Port Multipliers

2009-10-20 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hello, > A somewhat related diversion: > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ And the quite reasonable Sun answer to that: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5899-Some-perspective-to-this-DIY-storage-server-mentioned-at-Storagemojo.html http