Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-09 Thread Edward Martinez
On 02/09/11 21:52, Ken Gunderson wrote: Hello People: I need a new graphics card for an older system (PCIE-1.0). I don't game, do graphics, rendering, etc. so don't need high end - just a good workstation unit that supports OpenGL, good color accuracy, and draws square squares :) Occasional DVD

[OpenIndiana-discuss] GPU HCL - nVidia Questions & Advice

2011-02-09 Thread Ken Gunderson
Hello People: I need a new graphics card for an older system (PCIE-1.0). I don't game, do graphics, rendering, etc. so don't need high end - just a good workstation unit that supports OpenGL, good color accuracy, and draws square squares :) Occasional DVD's are probably about the most GPU intensi

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [power management] S3 suspend failure on resume.

2011-02-09 Thread C C
Hi I'm having some issues with getting my system to resume from s3 suspend on the latest oi image 148. The system is a intel pentium dual core running on an nforce 610i based board. BIOS is set to allow s3 and it works under other operating systems.  When I suspend the system via sys-suspen

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread Ron McDowell
Thanks. No, I hadn't seen that. Maybe the spam filter ate it... :( -- Ron McDowell San Antonio TX Edward Martinez wrote: Did you read this? Some info: "Appears Oracle has addressed this problem in PSARC 2008/769 ___ OpenIndiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread Edward Martinez
On 02/09/11 12:20, Ron McDowell wrote: It still is an issue if one wants to install the OS to a 2tb HD, right? Did you read this? Some info: "Appears Oracle has addressed this problem in PSARC 2008/769 . This seems

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread Ron McDowell
It still is an issue if one wants to install the OS to a 2tb HD, right? -- Ron McDowell San Antonio TX andy thomas wrote: Forget last message - I've now discovered if you actually install io 148, the 64-bit kernel is installed and the 2 TB disks are visible. So I guess it always boots the 32

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris Virtual Consoles

2011-02-09 Thread Edward Martinez
On 02/09/11 04:20, Andrey Sokolov wrote: Virtual Consoles is available on OpenSolaris 2009.06 (snv_111) too. This how-to is suitable for OpenSolaris 2009.06. 2011/2/9 Edward Martinez Their back!!! Solaris Virtual Consoles according to this how-to, they have been available starting with snv_12

[OpenIndiana-discuss] info about Solaris and the new 4K-Sector-Disks (e.g. WDxxEARS)

2011-02-09 Thread Edward Martinez
Some info: "Appears Oracle Oracle has addressed this problem in PSARC 2008/769 . This seems to be a fairly generic and flexible solution, however it will only be available in the next release of Solaris. It might be already in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread andy thomas
Forget last message - I've now discovered if you actually install io 148, the 64-bit kernel is installed and the 2 TB disks are visible. So I guess it always boots the 32-bit kernel. Andy On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, andy thomas wrote: Following on from this discussion, how do I force the OI 148 live

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread andy thomas
Following on from this discussion, how do I force the OI 148 live DVD or text installers to boot a 64-bit kernel? It's supposed to auto-detect the system's CPU but on my HP Microserver, it boots the 32-bit kernel, corrrectly identifes the 160 GB disk and then complains that the three 2 TB disks

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?

2011-02-09 Thread Deano
IANAL but yes CDDL is an very free license and fairly easy to comply with and release commercial products. Larger size but see Nextenta storage servers for exactly this form of commercialization. HTH, Deano de...@cloudpixies.com -Original Message- From: Gary [mailto:gdri...@gmail.com] S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?

2011-02-09 Thread Gary
I'm not seeing any current Atom CPUs that support ECC. However, by using Marvell's product selector I found some of their "discovery" series embedded processors support it. Ideally, you'd want to find an embedded board of some usable form factor that includes one of those CPUs while still providing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread Piotr Jasiukajtis
On Feb 9, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Matt Connolly wrote: > Here's my experience: > > On 07/02/2011, at 11:31 PM, Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote: >> On Feb 7, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: >> >>> Could someone enlighten me as to what is wrong with WD's disks, and >>> particularly what's wrong with t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread Gary
More about using 4k sector drives under non Windows systems but only Linux & OS X are mentioned; http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5655 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-09 Thread Gary Gendel
On 2/9/11 5:56 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: On 08/02/2011, at 6:16 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Thanks for all the responses. Indeed, I've already replaced my cron script. On 2/7/11 11:08 AM, Dave Miner wrote: On 02/ 7/11 10:43 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: Something that someone mentioned

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] beagleboard (arm) port?

2011-02-09 Thread Gary Driggs
> On 02/08/2011 09:57 AM, Jacob Ritorto wrote: >> Again, this is a home archiving system with requirements of 1) data >> integrity, >> 2) minimal impact on electric bill over a year's run time and 3) >> approximately >> no noise. On Feb 8, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Russ Price wrote: > It won't be as lo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: > I stil get these symptoms with OI-148. > >> 2. They spin down heads every 8 seconds. > > This particular problem can be overcome by using the WD3IDLE command to > defeat this behaviour. > >> 3. I have seen a few bad sector reports and bad head

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris Virtual Consoles

2011-02-09 Thread Andrey Sokolov
Virtual Consoles is available on OpenSolaris 2009.06 (snv_111) too. This how-to is suitable for OpenSolaris 2009.06. 2011/2/9 Edward Martinez > Their back!!! > > Solaris Virtual Consoles > according to this how-to, they have been available starting with snv_124. > > > http://blogs.sun.com/DanX/e

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Are there any issues re ZFS on 2TB disks (from WD??) with large blocksizes?

2011-02-09 Thread Matt Connolly
Here's my experience: On 07/02/2011, at 11:31 PM, Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote: > On Feb 7, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: > >> Could someone enlighten me as to what is wrong with WD's disks, and >> particularly what's wrong with their EARS disks? > > 1. They emulate 512b with a big write p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSolaris and dynamic DNS

2011-02-09 Thread Matt Connolly
On 08/02/2011, at 6:16 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: > Thanks for all the responses. Indeed, I've already replaced my cron script. > > On 2/7/11 11:08 AM, Dave Miner wrote: >> On 02/ 7/11 10:43 AM, Gary Gendel wrote: >>> Something that someone mentioned in passing triggered a thought. >>> >>> My serv