From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 9 11:42:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.avatar.com (ns1.avatar.com [199.33.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261C937B405 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:42:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat (tomcat.avatar.com [199.33.206.20]) by ns1.avatar.com (8.12.0.Beta8/8.12.0.Beta8) with SMTP id f89IcUUM026763 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:38:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: Subject: EIDE Drive Errors - Please Help! Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 11:41:33 -0700 Message-ID: <007e01c1395f$0c541d40$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a relatively new IBM DTLA-307045 45G UDMA/100 Hard disk drive them seems to be having a lot of bad sectors. This is the slave drive in the system. The first drive is a IBM DTLA-307030 and it is the master. I'm using the proper shielded cable and the blue connector is going to the motherboard EIDe controller. The slave drive is connected to the middle connecter and the master is conncted to the end connector. The motherboard is a ASUS CUSL2 with a 800MHZ P3 and 512MB of RAM. The system is running RELEASE-4.3. This system was running NT 4.0 for several months without any problems, although the slave drive was not used extensively. I have on partition, ad1s1, which takes the entire drive. I used sysinstall to create the slices, which I wanted to slices to match the master drive. So I did a disklabel -e, and changed the slices to use ad1s1a, ad1s1e, and ad1s1f (that is all I changed). I then did a "newfs -b 8192 -f 1024" on the three filesystem. That all when fine. I mounted ad1s1f on /mnt can copied about 20 meg, just as a test. I un-mounted it and ran fsck and start seeing a lot of hard read error and "DMA problem -- using PIO" errors. When I do a "dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/dev/null" I get the same errors towards the end of the scan. I'm not that familiar with IDE drive -- I've been using SCSI mostly until now. Do I need to get a new drive? Is there a way to map out the bad sectors on this drive? I urgently need help -- I suppose to have did system up and running online by Monday. Thanks, Kory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 9 14:55:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sphinx.wuhjuhbuh.2y.net (syr-66-24-24-88.twcny.rr.com [66.24.24.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D469B37B405 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 14:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by sphinx.wuhjuhbuh.2y.net (8.11.4/8.10.1) id f89Lt0a16679; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:55:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sphinx.wuhjuhbuh.2y.net: nobody set sender to using -f Received: from UNKNOWN(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "wuhjuhbuh.2y.net" via SMTP by sphinx, id smtpdK27874; Sun Sep 9 17:54:58 2001 Received: from 192.168.1.5 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ski) by wuhjuhbuh.2y.net with HTTP; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3683.192.168.1.5.1000072498.squirrel@wuhjuhbuh.2y.net> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: EIDE Drive Errors - Please Help! From: "Brian Szymanski" To: kory@avatar.com In-Reply-To: <007e01c1395f$0c541d40$14ce21c7@avatar.com> References: <007e01c1395f$0c541d40$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ouch. I don't envy your situation. Those IBM Deskstar hard drives got rave reviews as being "the fastest EIDE hard drives ever," but apparently they tend to fall apart after a couple of months. I came close to buying one before by chance I happened to read some customer opinions of the product in which 75% of them said that it was "a great product if it only would f****ing work", see: http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1092-418-1664463.html?tag=st.co.1092- 404-1664463.urev.1092-418-1664463 If at all possible, get a new hard drive and install on that ASAP. With EIDE drives, quality is pretty variable (but very good on certain products). I've had no trouble with my Maxtor, but YMMV. > I have a relatively new IBM DTLA-307045 45G UDMA/100 Hard disk drive > them seems to be having a lot of bad sectors. This is the slave drive > in the system. The first drive is a IBM DTLA-307030 and it is the > master. I'm using the proper shielded cable and the blue connector is > going to the motherboard EIDe controller. The slave drive is connected > to the middle connecter and the master is conncted to the end > connector. The motherboard is a ASUS CUSL2 with a 800MHZ P3 and 512MB > of RAM. The system is running RELEASE-4.3. > > This system was running NT 4.0 for several months without any problems, > although the slave drive was not used extensively. I have on partition, > ad1s1, which takes the entire drive. I used sysinstall to create the > slices, which I wanted to slices to match the master drive. So I did a > disklabel -e, and changed the slices to use ad1s1a, ad1s1e, and ad1s1f > (that is all I changed). I then did a "newfs -b 8192 -f 1024" on the > three filesystem. That all when fine. I mounted ad1s1f on /mnt can > copied about 20 meg, just as a test. I un-mounted it and ran fsck and > start seeing a lot of hard read error and "DMA problem -- using PIO" > errors. When I do a "dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/dev/null" I get the same > errors towards the end of the scan. > > I'm not that familiar with IDE drive -- I've been using SCSI mostly > until now. Do I need to get a new drive? Is there a way to map out the > bad sectors on this drive? > > I urgently need help -- I suppose to have did system up and running > online by Monday. > > Thanks, > Kory > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 9 18:12:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.avatar.com (ns1.avatar.com [199.33.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4312C37B408 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat (tomcat.avatar.com [199.33.206.20]) by ns1.avatar.com (8.12.0.Beta8/8.12.0.Beta8) with SMTP id f8A18PUM028948; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:08:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: "Brian Szymanski" Cc: Subject: RE: EIDE Drive Errors - Please Help! Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:11:33 -0700 Message-ID: <003701c13995$87b23cc0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <3683.192.168.1.5.1000072498.squirrel@wuhjuhbuh.2y.net> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You're scaring me, man! I've always have had very good luck with the reliability of IBM hardware! Some kind person on the list pointed me to software on IBM sites that allowed me to re-format and map the bad sectors out. It seems to be fine right now and I don't have enough time right now to swap drives and re-install the OS. The system has to be up by the morning. What is the easiest way of swapping both drives? I suspect I should do a level 0 dump. Install the new drive. Install a minimum FBSD system and them restore from tape on top of it?? Thanks, Kory > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Szymanski [mailto:brian.szymanski@cornell.edu] > > Ouch. I don't envy your situation. Those IBM Deskstar hard drives > got rave > reviews as being "the fastest EIDE hard drives ever," but apparently they > tend to fall apart after a couple of months. I came close to buying one > before by chance I happened to read some customer opinions of the product > in which 75% of them said that it was "a great product if it only would > f****ing work", see: > > http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1092-418-1664463.html?tag=st.co.1092- > 404-1664463.urev.1092-418-1664463 > > If at all possible, get a new hard drive and install on that ASAP. With > EIDE drives, quality is pretty variable (but very good on certain > products). I've had no trouble with my Maxtor, but YMMV. > > > I have a relatively new IBM DTLA-307045 45G UDMA/100 Hard disk drive > > them seems to be having a lot of bad sectors. This is the slave drive > > in the system. The first drive is a IBM DTLA-307030 and it is the > > master. I'm using the proper shielded cable and the blue connector is > > going to the motherboard EIDe controller. The slave drive is connected > > to the middle connecter and the master is conncted to the end > > connector. The motherboard is a ASUS CUSL2 with a 800MHZ P3 and 512MB > > of RAM. The system is running RELEASE-4.3. > > > > This system was running NT 4.0 for several months without any problems, > > although the slave drive was not used extensively. I have on partition, > > ad1s1, which takes the entire drive. I used sysinstall to create the > > slices, which I wanted to slices to match the master drive. So I did a > > disklabel -e, and changed the slices to use ad1s1a, ad1s1e, and ad1s1f > > (that is all I changed). I then did a "newfs -b 8192 -f 1024" on the > > three filesystem. That all when fine. I mounted ad1s1f on /mnt can > > copied about 20 meg, just as a test. I un-mounted it and ran fsck and > > start seeing a lot of hard read error and "DMA problem -- using PIO" > > errors. When I do a "dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/dev/null" I get the same > > errors towards the end of the scan. > > > > I'm not that familiar with IDE drive -- I've been using SCSI mostly > > until now. Do I need to get a new drive? Is there a way to map out the > > bad sectors on this drive? > > > > I urgently need help -- I suppose to have did system up and running > > online by Monday. > > > > Thanks, > > Kory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 9 19:37: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from c001.snv.cp.net (c001-h010.c001.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B12B37B403 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 19:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 7733 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2001 19:37:00 -0700 Date: 9 Sep 2001 19:37:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20010910023700.7732.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> X-Sent: 10 Sep 2001 02:37:00 GMT Received: from [24.48.64.135] by mail.sawilson.com with HTTP; 09 Sep 2001 19:37:00 PDT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: sawilson@sawilson.com X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.9.3.5 X-Sent-From: sawilson@sawilson.com Subject: best card for xfree 4.1.0 DRI and quake3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear List, I currently own a voodoo3 3500. I've been banging my head against a brick wall trying to get DRI working with it for about a month using CVS 4.1.0. I'm not looking for help on that. Based on the luck I've had with the limited documentation I've found online, I'm totally convinced at this point that nobody out there has a clue how to actually get it working. Those that have are in league with lucifer and stuff. Either way, I'm just the sick type of SOB that thoroughly enjoys figuring out crap like this on my own. For those out there that actually have DRI working with 4.1.0 AND have quake3 arena 1.29 running AS A CLIENT, I have a few questions: #1 What kind of performance are you getting with the card you are using? (NOTE: frames per second, color depth, goodies turned on in the game) #2 What kind of card are you using? #3 What card has the best bang? (NOTE: not best bang for the buck. I'm going to take the small fortune I've saved by not running microsoft crap and throw it all on the BEST card out there that works with FreeBSD 4.4, DRI, and Quake3) #4 Anybody had luck with the recent ports version of 4.1.0? I was happily quaking away with 3.3.6 and the linux voodoo3 driver until quake 1.27. For some reason, it just quit working. I spent a month trying to figure that out before giving up and going the DRI route. I figure 3DFX is gone anyway, so I should jump ship and find out what the best thing going now is. That and I REALLY miss rails only play. I've read a few places that the voodoo3 performance under DRI is slightly below lackluster at best. I have a small server set up on my cable connection: locnar.sawilson.com, default game port and an info page set up at http://www.sawilson.com that has my hardware configuration, planned upgrades, and server information. Please feel free to check out what quake3 arena 1.29 server with the beryllium mod runs like on FreeBSD 4.4. I may be lurking around console saying things like "Nice score" and "!@#$ you, I wish I could play". If anybody has any questions on how to set up a server, I have that part down. Shoot me some mail and I'll help you out. Once I know what the best card is, I'll probably make the same deal with the devil the rest of you must have made to get DRI working under FreeBSD. Anybody know her email address? I really miss playing. Thanks In Advance for any information anyone can give me. -- Best Regards, S.A.Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 9 23:18: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from zogbe.tasam.com (uta-ip196.ntc.off-campus.vt.edu [63.165.178.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF1E937B401 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 23:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from battleship (uta-ip196.ntc.off-campus.vt.edu [63.165.178.196]) by zogbe.tasam.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f8A6Hdr66788; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:17:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <008901c139c0$4e1b7190$095f5f0a@battleship> From: "Joseph Gleason" To: "Kory Hamzeh" , "Brian Szymanski" Cc: References: <003701c13995$87b23cc0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Subject: Re: EIDE Drive Errors - Please Help! Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 02:17:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In my experience, the IBM drives with 15gb platters have had quality control problems. I would recommend against buying that generation if you can help it. Of 8 30gb IBM drives about 80% have failed. Of 2 75gb IBM drives, 100% have failed. (This is not a very big test set, I know) Never a complete failure...just an ever growing number of bad sectors...which as far as I can tell, IDE drives are not good at remapping. I don't know the interworkings of hard drives, so my statement there might be completely wrong. You can dump from one drive onto the other in one step. Something like: cd /mnt/new dump -au -0 -f - /dev/ad4s1a | restore -rf - Note: restore needs a /tmp directory that it can write some of its inode lists or something to. Make sure whatever contains /tmp is mounted R/W. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: "Brian Szymanski" Cc: Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 21:11 Subject: RE: EIDE Drive Errors - Please Help! > You're scaring me, man! I've always have had very good luck with the > reliability of IBM hardware! Some kind person on the list pointed me to > software on IBM sites that allowed me to re-format and map the bad sectors > out. It seems to be fine right now and I don't have enough time right now to > swap drives and re-install the OS. The system has to be up by the morning. > > What is the easiest way of swapping both drives? I suspect I should do a > level 0 dump. Install the new drive. Install a minimum FBSD system and them > restore from tape on top of it?? > > Thanks, > Kory > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Szymanski [mailto:brian.szymanski@cornell.edu] > > > > Ouch. I don't envy your situation. Those IBM Deskstar hard drives > > got rave > > reviews as being "the fastest EIDE hard drives ever," but apparently they > > tend to fall apart after a couple of months. I came close to buying one > > before by chance I happened to read some customer opinions of the product > > in which 75% of them said that it was "a great product if it only would > > f****ing work", see: > > > > http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1092-418-1664463.html?tag=st.co.1092- > > 404-1664463.urev.1092-418-1664463 > > > > If at all possible, get a new hard drive and install on that ASAP. With > > EIDE drives, quality is pretty variable (but very good on certain > > products). I've had no trouble with my Maxtor, but YMMV. > > > > > I have a relatively new IBM DTLA-307045 45G UDMA/100 Hard disk drive > > > them seems to be having a lot of bad sectors. This is the slave drive > > > in the system. The first drive is a IBM DTLA-307030 and it is the > > > master. I'm using the proper shielded cable and the blue connector is > > > going to the motherboard EIDe controller. The slave drive is connected > > > to the middle connecter and the master is conncted to the end > > > connector. The motherboard is a ASUS CUSL2 with a 800MHZ P3 and 512MB > > > of RAM. The system is running RELEASE-4.3. > > > > > > This system was running NT 4.0 for several months without any problems, > > > although the slave drive was not used extensively. I have on partition, > > > ad1s1, which takes the entire drive. I used sysinstall to create the > > > slices, which I wanted to slices to match the master drive. So I did a > > > disklabel -e, and changed the slices to use ad1s1a, ad1s1e, and ad1s1f > > > (that is all I changed). I then did a "newfs -b 8192 -f 1024" on the > > > three filesystem. That all when fine. I mounted ad1s1f on /mnt can > > > copied about 20 meg, just as a test. I un-mounted it and ran fsck and > > > start seeing a lot of hard read error and "DMA problem -- using PIO" > > > errors. When I do a "dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/dev/null" I get the same > > > errors towards the end of the scan. > > > > > > I'm not that familiar with IDE drive -- I've been using SCSI mostly > > > until now. Do I need to get a new drive? Is there a way to map out the > > > bad sectors on this drive? > > > > > > I urgently need help -- I suppose to have did system up and running > > > online by Monday. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Kory > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 10 15:56:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AE837B408 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f8AMuIh06304 for hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:56:18 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:56:18 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: PXE bootable gigabit nics Message-ID: <20010910155618.A3947@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows of any supported or soon to be supported copper gigabit nics with PXE boot functionality? The 3Com 3C996-T looks very attractive (expecialy at around $155 each in volume), but here's no support yet. Booting of a 100mbps port isn't really an option because I need to support around 100 nodes this year and that much gigabit attached 10/100 is rather expensive. Thanks, Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7nUURXY6L6fI4GtQRAnykAJ0Xqp/i5MInwLfK1gYPFs/N4ZDXnACffVQR Mm/zSdyjn7lBmjU/YW4rAt8= =WKFl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 11 11:35: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from relay.comm2000.it (mindseal.comm2000.it [194.133.0.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A0037B401 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomma.local.lan ([212.97.62.126]) by relay.comm2000.it (8.11.2/MFAGMM-19990726) with ESMTP id f7T9UwK32087 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:30:58 +0200 X-SMTP-Peer: [212.97.62.126] Received: (from nobody@localhost) by insomma.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f7T9Unq04140 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:30:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from massimo@datacode.it) X-Authentication-Warning: insomma.local.lan: nobody set sender to massimo@datacode.it using -f Received: from 192.168.1.13 ( [192.168.1.13]) as user massimo@mail.datacode.it by webapps.datacode.it with HTTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:30:49 +0200 Message-ID: <999077449.3b8cb649bd365@webapps.datacode.it> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 11:30:49 +0200 From: Massimo Lusetti To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: NAS solution MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: DataMAIL on WEB Solution (DM) 2.3.7-cvs Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've to choose a network attached solutions to serve a file base about 200 GB (growing) via NSF and CIFS/SMB to about 15 WKS. Does anyone have any experience ? In particular you believe is the case to look at solutions form vendors like IBM or HP or just build a solid server with a lot of disks in (which i think solution from vendors are like) ?! Thanks. Regards -- Massimo Lusetti Network Department Manager url: http://www.datacode.it email: info@datacode.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 11 11:42:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BA037B408 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (barney@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA69696; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:41:53 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:41:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Troy Barnhart To: Massimo Lusetti Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NAS solution In-Reply-To: <999077449.3b8cb649bd365@webapps.datacode.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am currently developing a SAN/NAS project at work. I just had a working session yesterday w/ an IBM storage specialist and engineer. HP has pulled their NAS-type stuff off the market. HP's backup's portion of SAN/Fibrechannel stuff is damn nice. Take a look at IBM's ESS "Shark" or FastStorage500 or NAS300g items... Actually, the IBM solution (based on AIX-RS600) is pretty damn good, but spendy. barney On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > > I've to choose a network attached solutions to serve a file base about 200 GB > (growing) via NSF and CIFS/SMB to about 15 WKS. > > Does anyone have any experience ? > In particular you believe is the case to look at solutions form vendors like > IBM or HP or just build a solid server with a lot of disks in (which i think > solution from vendors are like) ?! > > Thanks. > > Regards > -- > Massimo Lusetti > Network Department Manager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 11 12: 7:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f146.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94F637B406; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:07:09 -0700 Received: from 205.158.104.176 by lw3fd.law3.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:07:09 GMT X-Originating-IP: [205.158.104.176] From: "Srinivas Dharmasanam" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inw and outw calls Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:07:09 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Sep 2001 19:07:09.0710 (UTC) FILETIME=[F4D4C2E0:01C13AF4] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I have a question regarding the inb/outb() or inw/outw() calls in FreeBSD 4.2. I have a dual fxp Fast Ethernet NIC that shows up as following with dmesg : fxp1: port 0xcc00-0xcc3f mem 0xef900000-0xef9fffff,0xefa ff000-0xefafffff irq 18 at device 12.0 on pci2 fxp1: Ethernet address 00:30:64:03:03:2a fxp2: port 0xc800-0xc83f mem 0xef700000-0xef7fffff,0xefa fe000-0xefafefff irq 19 at device 13.0 on pci2 fxp2: Ethernet address 00:30:64:03:03:2b Now, I need to write the Watchdog timer ctrl registers (offset 65 and 66) on this card. For this I'm using outb(port, val) fn call. Can someone please tell me how to calculate the port no to pass to this outb() function. I tried writing to all possible port nos starting from 0xc800 to 0xc83f and 0xcc00-0xcc3f but it has no apparent effect on the system. Please let me know how to translate this port range to the actual outb() fn call arguments. Thanks a lot in advance. Regards, -Srinivas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 11 19:14:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from c001.snv.cp.net (c001-h003.c001.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A951F37B40A for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 2085 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2001 19:14:15 -0700 Date: 11 Sep 2001 19:14:15 -0700 Message-ID: <20010912021415.2084.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> X-Sent: 12 Sep 2001 02:14:15 GMT Received: from [24.48.64.135] by mail.sawilson.com with HTTP; 11 Sep 2001 19:14:15 PDT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: massimo@datacode.it From: sawilson@sawilson.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.9.3.5 Subject: Re: NAS solution X-Sent-From: sawilson@sawilson.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello There, At a large ISP I used to work at, we swore by netapps: http://www.netapp.com They are pretty expensive, but very easy to work with and very reliable. Definitely industrial grade NAS. Some of the key features that made them a godsend were: #1 snapshots. You could set the netapp up to take a filesystem "snapshot" at a particular time. If a user accidentally deleted something, it was pretty easy to do a cp and restore it. #2 growing filesystems. You could add disks to a running group and grow it without turning anything off or down. #3 easy backup. I wrote a backup script in perl for 200+ gigs of data using the UNIX dump command. You can hook a decent dlt stacker right up to the back of the thing, and remotely backup other netapps to the same tape library. We used a breece hill q2.15 stacker. #4 cifs and NFS. Both UNIX and microslut machines can share the same storage. #4 configuration flexibility. You can chose from multiple networking options (100tx, giga, etc.) and disk options (UW, U2W, fibre channel, etc.) #5 stability. It's a proprietary OS of some sort they use. An instructor I had for netapp 101 hinted that it's a SunOS based kernel. Short of the occasional hard disk failure, we rarely had any problems in the 3 years I played with them. Hot swapping of dead drives for hot spares happened seemlessly. #5 Ease of use. You can configure the things from console, with a GUI tool, or with a web based interface that runs on port 80. We found that the console tools were more than enough, and very simple to use. Netapp has also been around longer than most of the other players in the game. They have a great product. It is an expensive option, but it's well worth the money. I think they have some sort of used hardware program geared towards small businesses that don't need 50 terabytes of storage. Best Regards, S.A.Wilson On Wed, 29 August 2001, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > > > I've to choose a network attached solutions to serve a file base about 200 GB > (growing) via NSF and CIFS/SMB to about 15 WKS. > > Does anyone have any experience ? > In particular you believe is the case to look at solutions form vendors like > IBM or HP or just build a solid server with a lot of disks in (which i think > solution from vendors are like) ?! > > Thanks. > > Regards > -- > Massimo Lusetti > Network Department Manager > > url: http://www.datacode.it > email: info@datacode.it > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 12 5:51: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from liberty.bulinfo.net (liberty.bulinfo.net [212.72.195.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7406037B409 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 93877 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2001 12:50:52 -0000 Received: from gate.bulinfo.net (212.72.195.1) by liberty.bulinfo.net with SMTP; 12 Sep 2001 12:50:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 49604 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2001 12:50:52 -0000 Received: from vertigo.bulinfo.net (HELO bulinfo.net) (212.72.195.3) by gate.bulinfo.net with SMTP; 12 Sep 2001 12:50:52 -0000 Message-ID: <3B9F55D7.9000908@bulinfo.net> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:32:23 +0300 From: Kliment Ognianov Organization: BulInfo Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; bg-BG; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010810 X-Accept-Language: bg, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Intel 82801AA (ICH) AC'97 Audio Controller under FreeBSD 4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to turn on Intel 82801AA (ICH) AC'97 Audio Controller under FreeBSD 4.3? Thanks in advance -- ............................................. : Kliment Ognianov : : Junior System Administrator & Developer : : ISP Networks Department : : BulInfo Ltd. : :...........................................: : ICQ #16864572, #64866894 : :...........................................: : http://www.bulinfo.net/ : ............................................. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 12 6: 9: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from c001.snv.cp.net (c001-h010.c001.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6810F37B40A for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 20720 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2001 06:09:05 -0700 Date: 12 Sep 2001 06:09:05 -0700 Message-ID: <20010912130905.20719.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> X-Sent: 12 Sep 2001 13:09:05 GMT Received: from [24.48.64.135] by mail.sawilson.com with HTTP; 12 Sep 2001 06:09:04 PDT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: kleo@bulinfo.net From: sawilson@sawilson.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.9.3.5 Subject: Re: Intel 82801AA (ICH) AC'97 Audio Controller under FreeBSD 4.3 X-Sent-From: sawilson@sawilson.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Found this with a quick www.google.com search with keywords: 82801AA FreeBSD audio http://www.katsurajima.seya.yokohama.jp/ich/ Hope this helps. Best Regards, S.A.Wilson On Wed, 12 September 2001, Kliment Ognianov wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm wondering if anyone knows how to turn on > Intel 82801AA (ICH) AC'97 Audio Controller under FreeBSD 4.3? > > Thanks in advance > > -- > ............................................. > : Kliment Ognianov : > : Junior System Administrator & Developer : > : ISP Networks Department : > : BulInfo Ltd. : > :...........................................: > : ICQ #16864572, #64866894 : > :...........................................: > : http://www.bulinfo.net/ : > ............................................. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 12 8: 6:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (piscator.seanet.com [199.181.165.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A26037B405 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by clyde.goodleaf.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C915F5C77; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 08:07:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Goodleaf" To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: optimizations for P4? Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:07:00 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010912150700.C915F5C77@clyde.goodleaf.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Didn't see a thread specifically about this in search of mailing lists, so I thought I'd ask. Am eyeballing the forthcoming P4 motherboards based on the VIA DDR chipset. My question: Given the many advancements over the P6 cores we're accustomed to, are there any compiler optimizations I can use when building world that will allow a reasonably full expression of the processor's potential? I ask because many early P4 benchmarks showed a distinct tendency for the P4 to do better when applications were compiled specifically for it. (See the controversy among several hardware site content providers on audio encoding a few months back.) I expect that the P4 will work with no trouble under a gcc buildworld, but will it be using those famous double-pumped ALUs (etc.) as well as it could? If not, I may as well go with AMD or PIIIs... Thx, J To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 13 6:41:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA75437B408 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x58.ripe.net (x58.ripe.net [193.0.1.58]) by birch.ripe.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8DDfQG06146 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:41:26 +0200 Received: (from luigi@localhost) by x58.ripe.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8DDfQt07135 for hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:41:26 +0200 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:41:25 +0200 From: Luigi Corsello To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Broadcom giga ethernet support Message-ID: <20010913154125.A7052@x58.ripe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello. I have one of those Dell Poweredge 2550 with a Broadcom GiG-E interface on board (controller: a Broadcom BCM5401KTB on the MB): PCI ID 14e4 Card 1644 I have found some support for at least the Tigon an the Intel (if_gx.ko) GiG-E chipsets, but nothing else, at now. Has anyone any information about some work-in-progress to support this chip/those interfaces?! Any help would be very appreciated. The Poweredge runs the 4.3-20010720-STABLE (with the parc/3 RAID controller support). Regards, Luigi Corsello RIPE Network Coordination Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 13 7:52:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from c001.snv.cp.net (c001-h010.c001.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D941037B40D for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 25324 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2001 07:52:09 -0700 Date: 13 Sep 2001 07:52:09 -0700 Message-ID: <20010913145209.25323.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> X-Sent: 13 Sep 2001 14:52:09 GMT Received: from [24.48.61.200] by mail.sawilson.com with HTTP; 13 Sep 2001 07:52:09 PDT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: luigi@ripe.net From: sawilson@sawilson.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.9.3.5 Subject: Re: Broadcom giga ethernet support X-Sent-From: sawilson@sawilson.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello There, This is the most current information I could find. It appears Broadcom are acting downright corporate. http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/160/2001/4/0/5635002/ Hope this helps. Best Regards, S.A.Wilson On Thu, 13 September 2001, Luigi Corsello wrote: > > Hello. > > I have one of those Dell Poweredge 2550 with a Broadcom GiG-E > interface on board (controller: a Broadcom BCM5401KTB on the MB): > PCI ID 14e4 Card 1644 > > I have found some support for at least the Tigon an the > Intel (if_gx.ko) GiG-E chipsets, but nothing else, at now. > Has anyone any information about some work-in-progress to support this > chip/those interfaces?! Any help would be very appreciated. > > The Poweredge runs the 4.3-20010720-STABLE (with the parc/3 > RAID controller support). > > > Regards, > Luigi Corsello > RIPE Network Coordination Centre > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message -- Best Regards, S.A.Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 13 9:15: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from phl.iago.org (phl.iago.org [207.8.219.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C7A37B410 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ra.iago.org.iago.org (ra.iago.org [192.148.252.45]) by phl.iago.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443634E for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:15:05 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: trouble with Seagate ATAPI tape under stable From: Justin Sheehy Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:10:10 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I sent this to -stable already, but got no response at all. I figured someone watching -hardware might have some info. I did a clean install of 4.3 and upgraded it to stable. Most things seem fine, but I cannot get the EIDE tape drive to work. The device appears as follows at boot time: ast0: TAPE at ata0-slave using PIO4 mt status seems okay: # mt -f /dev/nrast0 status Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x01:X3.22-1983 512 bytes 800 none ---------available modes--------- 0: default variable 0 none 1: default variable 0 none 2: default variable 0 none 3: default variable 0 none --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 0 However, if I try any operation to write to the tape (dd, tar, whatever) it fails with an I/O error and the following is sent to syslog: ast0: WRITE - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=30 ascq=00 error=00 In some cases I also see this: ast0: READ - BLANK CHECK asc=00 ascq=05 error=00 In no case am I able to write labels or other data to tapes. Am I missing something obvious, is this a known issue in stable, or should I submit a bug? Thanks. -Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 13 10:30:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D2337B414 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA29657; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010913145209.25323.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:30:46 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: sawilson@sawilson.com Subject: Re: Broadcom giga ethernet support Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, luigi@ripe.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 13-Sep-01 sawilson@sawilson.com wrote: > Hello There, > > This is the most current information I could find. It appears Broadcom are > acting downright corporate. Bill Paul has documentation and is working on a driver right now, but it isn't done yet. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 13 19:15:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.avatar.com (ns1.avatar.com [199.33.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2838437B406 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat (tomcat.avatar.com [199.33.206.20]) by ns1.avatar.com (8.12.0.Beta8/8.12.0.Beta8) with SMTP id f8E2FDUM019279 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:15:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: Subject: MSI 850 Pro2 (MS-6523) Motherboard Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:15:15 -0700 Message-ID: <000901c13cc3$17670000$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm putting together a somewhat high end e-commerce server running RELEASE-4.3, apache+mod_ssl, and Miva Empressa & Merchant 4.0. The motherboard I plan to use is a MSI 850 Pro2 (MS-6523). It uses the Intel 850 and the ICH2 chipsets. The CPU will be a P4 @ 1.4Ghz with 512K RAM. Are there any know problems with this MB or chipset? I'm wondering for e-commerce application where there will be short burst of disk I/O, if I need to go with U160 SCSI or if UDMA100 EIDE will be sufficient. I was planning to go with two Maxtor ATA-100 7200 RPM 40 gig drives. Any feedback on putting together a fast system would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 15 7:47:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from athena.za.net (athena.za.net [196.30.167.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB66C37B401; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 07:47:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jus (helo=localhost) by athena.za.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 15iGik-0006LE-00; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:47:02 +0200 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:47:02 +0200 (SAST) From: Justin Stanford X-Sender: jus@athena.za.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Gigabyte 1U GS-SR101 Server and Onboard Intel NIC trouble.. anyone? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Apologies for cross-post] Hi, I'm working with one of these 1U GS-SR101 Gigabyte rackmount servers, with twin onboard Intel Pro NIC's, running FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE. It has a pentium III 1GHz CPU, and 512mb RAM. When booting GENERIC, it get fxp0, and fxp1, as expected. However, upon assigning correct IP's, and other network parameters, and extensive testing between both cisco routers and other miscellaneous servers, I can *only* get pings or other traffic flowing on fxp0, and not fxp1, not matter what I seem to do. fxp1 appears to be up in all respects, but it just doesn't seem to be working, whereas fxp0 works fine. However, I can ping fxp1 via fxp0, so the interface is up on the system, but I can't get anything via fxp1. Has anyone else experienced this trouble? I hesitate to think that it is a faulty NIC, but that's all I can think of right now.. is there a known problem with FreeBSD and this hardware? GNATS and a search of the mailling lists doesn't seem to reveal anything. Thanks in anticipation, Justin (Kindly CC me any answers as I am not subscribed, thank you.) -- Justin Stanford Internet/Network Security & Solutions Consultant 4D Digital Security http://www.4dds.co.za Cell: (082) 7402741 E-Mail: jus@security.za.net PGP Key: http://www.security.za.net/jus-pgp-key.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 15 15: 0: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21C837B40E for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f8FLxhT15387; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:59:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: jus@security.za.net (Justin Stanford) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabyte 1U GS-SR101 Server and Onboard Intel NIC trouble.. anyone? Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:59:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3jj7qt43t49sbnpn1kice63r5b9m9v7ikg@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 15 Sep 2001 10:47:38 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you = wrote: > >Has anyone else experienced this trouble? I hesitate to think that it is= a >faulty NIC, but that's all I can think of right now.. is there a known >problem with FreeBSD and this hardware? GNATS and a search of the = mailling >lists doesn't seem to reveal anything. > Is this board based on the Intel 815e chipset by chance ? The Intel NICs = on those boards need 4.4Release (or 4.3 STABLE from late August) to work properly. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 15 15: 6: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from athena.za.net (athena.za.net [196.30.167.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D204337B412 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jus (helo=localhost) by athena.za.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 15iNZ8-0006RZ-00; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 00:05:34 +0200 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 00:05:34 +0200 (SAST) From: Justin Stanford X-Sender: jus@athena.za.net To: Mike Tancsa Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabyte 1U GS-SR101 Server and Onboard Intel NIC trouble.. anyone? In-Reply-To: <3jj7qt43t49sbnpn1kice63r5b9m9v7ikg@4ax.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have no idea what motherboard is in there.. and Gigabyte's website doesn't reveal much.. in anycase, I'll cvsup the machine to the latest 4.4 release and try from there. What still bothers me is that the one NIC works fine but the other doesn't.. Thanks a lot, /j -- Justin Stanford Internet/Network Security & Solutions Consultant 4D Digital Security http://www.4dds.co.za Cell: (082) 7402741 E-Mail: jus@security.za.net PGP Key: http://www.security.za.net/jus-pgp-key.txt On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 15 Sep 2001 10:47:38 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: > > > > >Has anyone else experienced this trouble? I hesitate to think that it is a > >faulty NIC, but that's all I can think of right now.. is there a known > >problem with FreeBSD and this hardware? GNATS and a search of the mailling > >lists doesn't seem to reveal anything. > > > > > Is this board based on the Intel 815e chipset by chance ? The Intel NICs on > those boards need 4.4Release (or 4.3 STABLE from late August) to work > properly. > > ---Mike > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) > Sentex Communications Corp, > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers > could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 15 15:24:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B6737B40E for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.sentex.net (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8FMOa944441; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:24:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010915181800.0244a908@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:24:35 -0400 To: Justin Stanford From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Gigabyte 1U GS-SR101 Server and Onboard Intel NIC trouble.. anyone? Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <3jj7qt43t49sbnpn1kice63r5b9m9v7ikg@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:05 AM 9/16/2001 +0200, Justin Stanford wrote: >I have no idea what motherboard is in there.. and Gigabyte's website >doesn't reveal much.. in anycase, I'll cvsup the machine to the latest 4.4 >release and try from there. What still bothers me is that the one NIC >works fine but the other doesn't.. Actually, I just had a quick search and it seems to be VIA chipset based. Still, it might be one of the newer i82562ET based Intels. Its worth a shot. ---Mike >Thanks a lot, >/j > >-- >Justin Stanford >Internet/Network Security & Solutions Consultant >4D Digital Security >http://www.4dds.co.za >Cell: (082) 7402741 >E-Mail: jus@security.za.net >PGP Key: http://www.security.za.net/jus-pgp-key.txt > >On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > On 15 Sep 2001 10:47:38 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: > > > > > > > >Has anyone else experienced this trouble? I hesitate to think that it is a > > >faulty NIC, but that's all I can think of right now.. is there a known > > >problem with FreeBSD and this hardware? GNATS and a search of the mailling > > >lists doesn't seem to reveal anything. > > > > > > > > > Is this board based on the Intel 815e chipset by chance ? The Intel NICs on > > those boards need 4.4Release (or 4.3 STABLE from late August) to work > > properly. > > > > ---Mike > > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) > > Sentex Communications Corp, > > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > > "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers > > could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 15 15:30:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from athena.za.net (athena.za.net [196.30.167.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0544A37B40D for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jus (helo=localhost) by athena.za.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 15iNwT-0006T3-00; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 00:29:41 +0200 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 00:29:41 +0200 (SAST) From: Justin Stanford X-Sender: jus@athena.za.net To: Mike Tancsa Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gigabyte 1U GS-SR101 Server and Onboard Intel NIC trouble.. anyone? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010915181800.0244a908@192.168.0.12> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hm, yes, it turns out that the server's mobo is a GA-6VXDR7, the closest I could find to that model was a VIA chipset mobo on Gigabyte's website.. in anycase, I'll cvsup, and pray.. Thanks, /j -- Justin Stanford Internet/Network Security & Solutions Consultant 4D Digital Security http://www.4dds.co.za Cell: (082) 7402741 E-Mail: jus@security.za.net PGP Key: http://www.security.za.net/jus-pgp-key.txt On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 12:05 AM 9/16/2001 +0200, Justin Stanford wrote: > >I have no idea what motherboard is in there.. and Gigabyte's website > >doesn't reveal much.. in anycase, I'll cvsup the machine to the latest 4.4 > >release and try from there. What still bothers me is that the one NIC > >works fine but the other doesn't.. > > Actually, I just had a quick search and it seems to be VIA chipset > based. Still, it might be one of the newer i82562ET based Intels. Its > worth a shot. > > ---Mike > > > >Thanks a lot, > >/j > > > >-- > >Justin Stanford > >Internet/Network Security & Solutions Consultant > >4D Digital Security > >http://www.4dds.co.za > >Cell: (082) 7402741 > >E-Mail: jus@security.za.net > >PGP Key: http://www.security.za.net/jus-pgp-key.txt > > > >On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > > On 15 Sep 2001 10:47:38 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >Has anyone else experienced this trouble? I hesitate to think that it is a > > > >faulty NIC, but that's all I can think of right now.. is there a known > > > >problem with FreeBSD and this hardware? GNATS and a search of the mailling > > > >lists doesn't seem to reveal anything. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is this board based on the Intel 815e chipset by chance ? The Intel NICs on > > > those boards need 4.4Release (or 4.3 STABLE from late August) to work > > > properly. > > > > > > ---Mike > > > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) > > > Sentex Communications Corp, > > > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > > > "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers > > > could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net > Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message