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Recent content by Diod631

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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    I just realised something... I have 2 USB 3.0 ports and 1 eSATA port on the back of my motherboard. I just need to find an enclosure for my hard drive and I can have a proper mirror. Or even better, I can just place the disk in my case, connect it to my PSU and then route a SATA - eSATA cable to...
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    Yep, very scary thought :(
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    The things we go through to protect our data... :) dd does take a really long time... Next time I'll definitely use zfs' resilvering instead.
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    Yeah, I guess that might be faster than dd. At least then it wouldn't have to copy the entire disk, just the part of the disk that's in use. I might do this next time, it won't be a regular occurance though. I don't have any hot swap bays (it's a regular tower case) so I have to open up the case...
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    Nah, FreeBSD. Thing is, it's kind of a pain to set up root zfs mirroring (it's partially setup already, but I'd need to configure the second disk too), I think it would be quicker to just copy it with dd.
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    Hmmm, not a bad idea. I could just boot up a live cd of ubuntu or whatever and use dd or something like that. Shouldn't take too long and it should provide me with something I can use in emergencies. Thanks :)
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    Yeah, the drives I'm using are regular 3.5" drives. I might buy something like that chassis in a few years when/if I need to expand my zfs pool, mirroring the boot drive is not important enough to justify the purchase right now. I can get the important stuff up and running again in an hour if...
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    Yes, the boot drive is connected to an onboard SATA port. I doubt I can disable the BIOS option roms for the controllers though, I can't find anything relating to this in the BIOS setup.
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    Well, to be fair, the only drives showing up in the BIOS of the motherboard are the ones connected to the motherboard itself and to the SASUC8I controller. The disk connected to the other SATA controller does not show up in the list of HDDs. That said, when the computer is booting and the...
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to the be problem. Manually selecting the boot disk results in the system hanging in the same spot.
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    SATA controller causes the system to get stuck on "Loading operating system ..."

    Hi, I have a system running FreeBSD 8.3 with the following hardware: Gigabyte GA-H67A-UD3H-B3 Intel Core i5 2400 4 x 4 GB DDR3-1333 be quiet! Dark Power Pro P9 550W Intel SASUC8I (in a PCI-Express x16 slot, with LSI IT firmware) Intel PRO/1000 GT ethernet adapter 11 x 2 TB drives (WD20EARS and...
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    WD20EARS and idle timer

    Hah, yes, a bonus :)
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    WD20EARS and idle timer

    Yeah, that's what I was wondering. I seem to be able to disable the timer on every drive though, but that's probably because I've got the EARS instead of the EADS (and perhaps it's just a newer version of the model too). I think setting the timer at its maximum allowed number of seconds is...
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    WD20EARS and idle timer

    Yeah, I was gonna do the same at first, but today I got this WD20EARS-60MVWB0 and the wdidle3 tool reported the drive has its timer disabled. So I'm wondering what the pro's and con's are of the two choices. If the drive doesn't go in standby mode at all when the timer is disabled, then I...
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    WD20EARS and idle timer

    Hey, I'm setting up a fileserver with FreeBSD using ZFS as the filesystem and I need some advice on what value to use for the idle timer (the one that puts the drive in standby after x seconds) on my WD20EARS disks. I have 2 different models of the WD20EARS disks: WD20EARS-00MVWB0 which has...
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