RE: Long time.

2003-10-08 Thread Zyski, John
-0400, Zyski, John wrote: > Could a mount take a really long time if it is a really big Hard drive??? Or has it > crashed? Absolutely yes. To prevent this from happening, you should use a journaling filesystem such as ext3, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, etc. Journal recovery is (always?) faster then che

Long time.

2003-10-08 Thread Zyski, John
Title: Long time. Could a mount take a really long time if it is a really big Hard drive???  Or has it crashed?

BSD slice

2003-10-07 Thread Zyski, John
Title: BSD slice Should mounting a FreeBSD slice be the same as mounting a partition?  I can see the slice with fdsik, I can mount some of the slices, but not all of them.  Does that mean anything to anyone?  I think the slice might be big, like, 45Gig.  Does that matter???  Thanks.

RE: Using RJ45 crimp tool

2003-10-03 Thread Zyski, John
Use of the tool.. When you put the wires into the RJ-45 cap, you then insert the cable with cap on it into the squisher part of the crimper. It should only fit one way. Crossover, is where the cable goes out on friday with a big wig. Or when you need to connect two computers without a

RE: Using RJ45 crimp tool

2003-10-03 Thread Zyski, John
This might be nitpicky, but as I understand it, color order does matter due to the use of the twisted pairs. The pairs are twisted to compensate for the spin of the energy moving through the cables, lessening the occurrence of cross talk. The popular standards consider the use of the pairs in

bsd

2003-10-03 Thread Zyski, John
Title: bsd I am trying to mount redhat 9 to a freeBSD partition.  I used a mount line that whould work, but it doesn't see the partition. The drive is from a maxtor maxattach 4000.  Anyone have any info on this? Thank you.