Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-04-17 Thread Matt Thyer
On Apr 4, 2012 10:02 PM, "Matt Thyer" wrote: > > On 3 April 2012 23:12, Gary Palmer wrote: >> >> I think you should contact either SuperMicro or LSI and open a support >> case as it looks like there could be a problem with either the controller >> or the

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-04-04 Thread Matt Thyer
On 3 April 2012 23:12, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 10:52:25PM +0930, Matt Thyer wrote: > > I forgot to mention that I'm still having problems after this phase 11 > > firmware upgrade with the 6 Gbps drive being kicked out of the raidz2 > with > >

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-04-03 Thread Matt Thyer
On Mar 27, 2012 11:50 PM, "Matt Thyer" wrote: > > I was having problems with the WD20EARX-00P AB51 drive being faulted by ZFS until I updated the firmware to 11 and now ZFS is happy (I've also done a full extended drive SMART test and the drive is fine). > I forgot t

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-04-03 Thread Matt Thyer
On 28 March 2012 03:51, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 23:50:31 +1030, Matt Thyer wrote: > > On 26 March 2012 23:55, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:05:59PM +1030, Matt Thyer wrote: > > > > On Mar 26, 201

Re: Using TMPFS for /tmp and /var/run?

2012-03-30 Thread Matt Thyer
On Mar 30, 2012 6:22 AM, "Eric van Gyzen" wrote: > However, if you always want to use tmpfs instead of stable storage, please do not. Some people expect /tmp to be persistent. This is why /etc/defaults/rc.conf has clear_tmp_enable="NO". Changing this would break the POLA. > This is a mistake.

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-03-27 Thread Matt Thyer
On 26 March 2012 23:55, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:05:59PM +1030, Matt Thyer wrote: > > On Mar 26, 2012 3:43 AM, "Garrett Cooper" wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Matt Thyer > wrote: > > > > Has this d

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-03-26 Thread Matt Thyer
On Mar 26, 2012 3:43 AM, "Garrett Cooper" wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Matt Thyer wrote: > > On 21 January 2012 09:58, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 23:14:20 -, Steven Hartland wrote: > >> > ---

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-03-25 Thread Matt Thyer
On 21 January 2012 09:58, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 23:14:20 -, Steven Hartland wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Kenneth D. Merry" > > To: ; > > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:44 PM > > Subject: LSI supported mps(4) driver available > > > > > > >

Re: growfs remove ufs/label and can't reset it with tunefs

2012-03-11 Thread Matt Thyer
2012/3/9 Olivier Cochard-Labbé > Hi all, > > once run growfs on a partition that had an UFS label, this label is > removed and it's no more possible to re-set it with tunefs. > Here is how to reproduce (tested on 8.3 and 9.0): > > mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 10MB > gpart create -s mbr /dev/md0 > gpa

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-12 Thread Matt Thyer
> How about adding stuff like this to /usr/share/examples/tcsh/complete.tcsh ? > > -- > Joel Yes to that. This is exactly where these suggestions should go. Feel free to create multiple examples files there but be very carefully with changes to system wide defaults. _

Re: [HEADSUP][CFT] pkgng beta1 is out

2012-02-06 Thread Matt Thyer
On Feb 6, 2012 3:50 AM, "Radio młodych bandytów" wrote: > > I wonder if I'm the only one thinking about a decentralised package management > First, a decentralised transport layer. Torrents are faster and more reliable than servers. > Second, decentralised management when anybody can upload a

Re: System headers with clang?

2011-10-11 Thread Matt Thyer
On Oct 12, 2011 3:25 AM, "Larry Rosenman" wrote: > > I didn't say bug for bug, just not generate stupid errors like the ffs one. > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On Oct 11, 2011, at 6:59 AM, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > We will NO

Re: Update on ports on 10.0

2011-10-11 Thread Matt Thyer
On Oct 11, 2011 5:07 PM, "Erwin Lansing" wrote: > > Since the release has been pushed back some more since the last mail, we > do have some time to test a possible fix for the issues we're seeing > with libtool on FreeBSD 10.0. [snip] > to move forward. Other options include the big find/grep/a

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-09 Thread Matt Thyer
On 9 October 2011 21:44, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 9 October 2011 19:10, Matt Thyer wrote: > > > Failure to boot the FreeBSD 9.0-BETA{2|3} memstick images does not > indicate > > a problem with a PCs BIOS/UEFI as these images are not properly > formatted. > > Acce

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-09 Thread Matt Thyer
On 9 October 2011 13:20, Thomas K. wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 07:28:55PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matt Thyer wrote: > > >On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" > wrote: > > >> > > >> On 10/08/11 19:25,

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-09 Thread Matt Thyer
On 9 October 2011 19:54, Thomas Mueller wrote: > One issue that has not come up on the emailing list is that dd, designed to > work with memsticks of various capacities, can not make the backup gpt at > the end of the memstick. > > Partition is just big enough to hold the data, and I ran out of i

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-08 Thread Matt Thyer
On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" wrote: > > On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >> I believe this is actually a case of the memstick image being an improperly >> formatted GPT as there is no backup partition table at the end of the >> volu

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-08 Thread Matt Thyer
On Oct 9, 2011 8:52 AM, "Warren Block" wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: > >> On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: >>> On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> Are there any general structural differences between

Re: Strange ZFS filesystem corruption

2011-10-04 Thread Matt Thyer
On Oct 4, 2011 5:50 AM, "Paul Mather" wrote: [snip] > I have a raidz2 ZFS pool on a system that I have recently been using as a mirror for about 6.5 TiB of data. The data are mirrored nightly using rsync. I noticed during these nightly rsync copies I would get some errors like this: > > =

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-27 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 28, 2011 7:15 AM, "Matt Thyer" wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2011 4:11 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" wrote: > > > > On 09/27/11 08:24, Matt Thyer wrote: > >> > >> On Sep 26, 2011 2:33 PM, "Adrian Chadd" wrote: > >>> > &

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-27 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 28, 2011 4:11 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" wrote: > > On 09/27/11 08:24, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >> On Sep 26, 2011 2:33 PM, "Adrian Chadd" wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>> >&g

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-27 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 26, 2011 2:33 PM, "Adrian Chadd" wrote: > > On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > I suspect that the thumb drive is the issue, not FreeBSD. > > I've booted the drive successfully on an older Via C3 board. > > I'm now watching it boot successfully on a Gigabyte GA-8I915PC

Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors

2011-09-15 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 15, 2011 11:36 PM, "Tim Gustafson" wrote: > > > The SAS 2008 chip (SAS 6G) is the one that the FreeBSD mps driver has > > problems with when used with port expanders. It's the older SAS 3G chip > > that works OK with FreeBSD I think. > > I had crossed some wires earlier on in our discussion

Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors

2011-09-14 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 15, 2011 12:42 AM, "Tim Gustafson" wrote: > > > I don't know what's out there having chosen only one such card for > > home use. So you'll need to do your own research. Start with looking > > at any card with the right chip and then look for evidence that people > > have used said card with

Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors

2011-09-10 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 11, 2011 6:07 AM, "Tim Gustafson" wrote: > > > I'm not sure what cards you can get now with the LSI 1068E chip. As > > LSI branded cards cost more, I went for for the LSI SAS2008 based > > Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8i as I knew I wasn't going to use port expanders. > > It could be hard to get c

Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors

2011-09-09 Thread Matt Thyer
On 10 September 2011 01:19, Tim Gustafson wrote: > I can most likely switch to a different card. Just to make sure I get the > right one, do you have a part number of the card that you are recommending? > As I mentioned earlier, I was looking around on the LSI site and they have > lots of optio

Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors

2011-09-09 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 9, 2011 8:38 PM, "Adrian Chadd" wrote: > > On 9 September 2011 18:32, Matt Thyer wrote: > > > Harder solutions are: > > > > A) Fix the driver > > .. which is the only way FreeBSD improves, so. You choose. :) > > Also: > > A1) Post l

Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors

2011-09-09 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 8, 2011 12:33 AM, "Tim Gustafson" wrote: > > > Advice is: > > > > Use -STABLE and not -RELEASE > > Upgrade firmware > > Avoid port multipliers > > > > As I'm using cheap 4K green drives I had to use wdidle3.exe to fix > > the 8 second head parking and I also had to use gnop to force my > >

Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors

2011-09-07 Thread Matt Thyer
On 7 September 2011 19:07, Matt Thyer wrote: > On 7 September 2011 13:54, Tim Gustafson wrote: > >> > What are the drives exactly? You may have issues like TLER or >> > frequent head parking. Are these SATA, SCSI or SAS and are port >> > multipliers in use? &g

Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors

2011-09-07 Thread Matt Thyer
On 7 September 2011 13:54, Tim Gustafson wrote: > > What are the drives exactly? You may have issues like TLER or > > frequent head parking. Are these SATA, SCSI or SAS and are port > > multipliers in use? > > root@bsd-03: dmesg | grep da6 > da6 at mpt0 bus 0 scbus1 target 1 lun 0 > da6: Fixed D

Re: RELENG_8 / mpt / zpool Errors

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 7, 2011 8:53 AM, "Tim Gustafson" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm running RELENG_8: > > -- > root@bsd-03: uname -a > FreeBSD bsd-03 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 22 14:58:58 PDT 2011 root@bsd-03:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > -- > > We've got an MPT controll

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 2, 2011 7:59 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" wrote: > > On 09/01/11 17:23, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >> On Sep 2, 2011 5:25 AM, "Warren Block" wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> >>&

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 2, 2011 5:25 AM, "Warren Block" wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >>> Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? > It seems wrong to

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
On Sep 2, 2011 4:35 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" wrote: > > On 09/01/11 14:00, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >> Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? >> >> We won't need larger than 2TiB installation media for many decad

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? We won't need larger than 2TiB installation media for many decades! ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubs

Re: http://www.freebsd.org/marketing/os-comparison.html

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Thyer
Advocacy by the project members is not going to be taken as seriously as an independent third party comparison. It's clear to me that the project should stick to improving it's own feature set and leave these sorts of things to others. Otherwise we're straying into Fanboy territory which aint pre

Re: Multithread Make in multicore server

2010-10-05 Thread Matt Thyer
On 5 October 2010 04:53, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 4 Oct 2010, at 18:46, Kevin Mai wrote: > > I see that there's no multithreading when running make.. is there a way > to enable multiprocessing when running make? > > Try 'make -j16 buildworld'. 16 is the maximum number of parallels processes > that m

Re: I need reply in Embedded FreeBSD Kernel Theme

2010-06-25 Thread Matt Thyer
On 24 June 2010 11:06, Mohammed Farrag wrote: > @ Matt > Thanx for ur reply Matt. > / > FreeBSD is already a very modular system and the traditional way (a > traditional way) to build for embedded systems is to follow the > NanoBSD build method (

Re: I need reply in Embedded FreeBSD Kernel Theme

2010-06-11 Thread Matt Thyer
On 12 June 2010 12:02, Chargen wrote: > Sir, first of all: I'm no expert in this field but I've seen your document > and I'm still wondering why you should impose such a design. > > I suppose it's well thought of but still I'm a bit opposed to binary > configuration files because I think has to be

Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-05-19 Thread Matt Thyer
it be too much for glabel to just know about UFS and tell the user to use tunefs instead if there appears to be a UFS filesystem present ? On 17 May 2010 23:32, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:54:17PM +0930, Matt Thyer wrote: >> On 12 May 2010 11:16, Bernd Walter wrote: &g

Re: fsck unable to read disk sectors

2010-05-17 Thread Matt Thyer
On 12 May 2010 11:16, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:15:13PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: > > i've posted a log here which is pretty self explanatory: > > > > http://pastebin.com/tn3NiDDW > > [snip] > > One of the typical problems users have is that they forget that > adding