From owner-freebsd-config Mon Oct 8 16:37:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f174.law14.hotmail.com [64.4.21.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C9B37B405 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:37:44 -0700 Received: from 24.161.140.91 by lw14fd.law14.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:37:44 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.161.140.91] From: "D. DeCoudras" To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: Config CD-ROM / Identify retries exceeded Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:37:44 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Oct 2001 23:37:44.0295 (UTC) FILETIME=[3A8D1770:01C15052] Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If anyone has any suggestions about the following, I'd be most appreciative ... I have a CD-ROM (LiteON 40x) which is configured correctly in my PC's BIOS (it boots the FreeBSD 4.4 Install CD no problem). After installing and configuring FreeBSD 4.4 on my HP Pavilion, while logged in as root I can't get the CD to mount. I see a few others have had this problem, as in: ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded Can anyone suggest the best solution? I'm convinced that my CDROM is configured correctly in BIOS (I have another IDE disk that I slide into my PC with a disk tray / slider physical form factor ... it has SuSe Linux on it and it boots just fine and sees the same CDROM drive with zero problems). Thank you for any suggestions. -DeCoudras _________________________________________________________________ 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-config" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-config Mon Oct 8 21:39:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.whitebarn.com (Spin.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7709037B401; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from BGPBook.Com (Relent.Bob.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.50]) by smtp.whitebarn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA34553; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 23:39:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from Bob@BGPBook.Com) Message-ID: <3BC27F89.4090706@BGPBook.Com> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:39:37 -0500 From: Bob Van Valzah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Hardware@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-SCSI@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-Install@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-FS@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-Config@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Vinum Bootstrapping Article Reviewers Wanted Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm working on an article that describes how to get started using Vinum (software RAID). After a gentle introduction, it takes the reader through the process starting with /stand/sysinstall and ending with a sever with mirrored volumes. It also covers several hardware failure scenarios and the recovery techniques needed to get a server back to normal. I'd like to make sure that the step-by-step procedures that it contains are correct for a wide audience. Folks experienced with Vinum could help by reviewing the article and commenting on subtleties I've missed. Vinum newbies could by providing a perspective that I lack. I'd particularly like to find reviewers who tried to get Vinum going in the past but gave up. You'll need to have access to a CPU on which you can do fresh FreeBSD installs. Anything better than a 486 with 8 MB of RAM should be ok as long as you can get to installation media. You'll need two or more disk drives of at least 500 MB or so. IDE or SCSI, mix & match are ok. The article is about 30 pages, so you'll need time to read it and try the procedures. I'd budget at least 2-3 hours, more if you'll have to scrape the hardware together. Comments returned to me in the next few days might make it into a version of the article that I hope will appear in the next print edition of the handbook. So if you have the necessary time, hardware, and inclination, please drop me a line and I'll get you a draft! Thanks, Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-config Tue Oct 9 20:49:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net (mtaout.telus.net [199.185.220.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CBC37B407 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 20:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dad.telus.net ([216.232.56.167]) by priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.10 201-229-121-110) with ESMTP id <20011010034944.SYVJ790.priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net@dad.telus.net>; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:49:44 -0600 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011009205314.00a1a710@pop3.norton.antivirus> X-Sender: a4a20756/pop.telus.net@pop3.norton.antivirus X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:54:35 -0700 To: "D. DeCoudras" , freebsd-config@freebsd.org From: Erik Stainsby Subject: Re: Config CD-ROM / Identify retries exceeded In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG LiteON is a very poorly made knock off brand. I have never succeeded in making it work under any *NIX, while it will perform flawlessly for a short while under win32/DOS. Give up and get a real CDR. Sorry. At 23:37 08/10/01 +0000, D. DeCoudras wrote: >If anyone has any suggestions about the following, I'd be most >appreciative ... I have a CD-ROM (LiteON 40x) which is configured >correctly in my PC's BIOS (it boots the FreeBSD 4.4 Install CD no >problem). After installing and configuring FreeBSD 4.4 on my HP Pavilion, >while logged in as root I can't get the CD to mount. I see a few others >have had this problem, as in: > >ata0-slave: identify retries exceeded > >Can anyone suggest the best solution? I'm convinced that my CDROM is >configured correctly in BIOS (I have another IDE disk that I slide into my >PC with a disk tray / slider physical form factor ... it has SuSe Linux on >it and it boots just fine and sees the same CDROM drive with zero problems). > >Thank you for any suggestions. > >-DeCoudras > > >_________________________________________________________________ >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-config" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message