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Today's Topics:
1. Pretec and Transcend 32G CF cards failing in FreeBSD (Linux
works) (Heikki Suonsivu)
2. NanoBSD and cron (Tim Bishop)
3. Re: NanoBSD and cron (Eugene Grosbein)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:27:54 +0200
From: Heikki Suonsivu <h...@wlansystems.com>
Subject: Pretec and Transcend 32G CF cards failing in FreeBSD (Linux
works)
To: freebs...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <490872E...@wlansystems.com>
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I have tried to use Pretec and Transcend 32G CF cards with FreeBSD, but
I get DMA timeouts on these cards. Previously used Sandisk Extreme III
8G and 16G CF cards work fine. The cards are new UDMA cards, which may
or may not have something to do with this.
The symptoms are similar to what you see when you try to use bad IDE-CF
adapter, which does not have DMA pins wired, but this hardware should be ok.
Linux works and says and card is UDMA33. The performance and CPU usage
seems what one would expect from UDMA33 device. On Sandisk cards, I get
DMA with FreeBSD but only WDMA2 (I do not know if they support more).
The hardware is DMP eBOX 4300 or DMA-enabled CF-2.5" converter from
pcengines.ch.
Anyone seen this?
I can arrange the hardware for testing, preferable in Finland, if anyone
wants to look at it?
Heikki Suonsivu
Wireless LAN Systems Ltd
+358405519679
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:23:37 +0000
From: Tim Bishop <tim-...@bishnet.net>
Subject: NanoBSD and cron
To: freebs...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20081029152...@carrick.bishnet.net>
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Hi all,
I hope this is the appropriate place to discuss NanoBSD.
I've got a Soekris box and I've used NanoBSD to get FreeBSD 7 on it. No
problems so far - NanoBSD is great :-)
But I'm wondering what the best way to do cron jobs is? I could store
the per-user crontabs in /conf so they go in to the /var ramdisk, but
I'd have to rebuild the image to change them. What I need is something
like /cfg but for /var.
I suppose the easiest solution is to write an rc script that sets the
cron entries up on boot? Or use the global /etc/crontab file instead?
Any other solutions?
Thanks,
Tim.
--
Tim Bishop
http://www.bishnet.net/tim/
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:52:47 +0700
From: Eugene Grosbein <eu...@kuzbass.ru>
Subject: Re: NanoBSD and cron
To: Tim Bishop <tim-...@bishnet.net>
Cc: freebs...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20081029165...@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:23:37PM +0000, Tim Bishop wrote:
> I suppose the easiest solution is to write an rc script that sets the
> cron entries up on boot? Or use the global /etc/crontab file instead?
If your your NanoBSD does not really serve several human "non-root" users,
just use global /etc/crontab and be happy :-)
OTOH, I sometimes use a software looking to /var with NanoBSD,
so I just place symlinks into initial /var contents that /etc/rc.diskless
uses to populate /var at boot time. And these symlinks point to /etc
that is preserved in /cfg.
Eugene Grosbein
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