Recent content by thejimmahknows

Hello mwroobel, The amount of drives disappearing varies, but from what I can tell. If I use either Adaptec, 1-2 drives disappear. The LSI, at least 4 disappear between channels. I have a thread opened over at servethehome.com and someone said it is because these drives require special...

Hello Folks, First post here in a long time, and am hoping y'all can help me figure this one out. I recently purchased a Supermicro CSE-216 and X8DTU-F motherboard/chassis on...

You da man! That did it. Must not have liked my extended ACL, changed to basic (acl<100), and now it is translating correctly. access-list 10 permit 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255 access-list 11 permit 172.16.0.0 0.0.0.255 Yes it is a complicated sim. It first was an GLBP lab, which grew into a BGP lab...

I have a GNS3 lab set up and I am trying to get NAT overloading working with a dynamic pool. Please see diagram The issue I am having is traffic is being routed correctly from PC1 to the ISP1 or ISP2. However the translation I believe is not working because I see this on the ISP routers...

Hello all, I am trying to figure out how technically a point-to-point Fibre Channel transfer works from hostA to hostB. I have a previous question posted at serverfault.com, here. asking how FC frames transfer data between hosts. Which makes me believe that the FLOGI process assigns source...

Mixbag of HDDs. Some SAMSUNGs Some WD Black-Drives Some Seagate Some Hitatchi All 7200rpms 32Mb cache -Jim

I have my RAID 6 up and running. Just finished the build/verify today. Starting to load data back onto it. I am running into an issue though. I am receiving a lot of SCSI hangs errors in my syslog. Jan 6 20:29:15 mediaserver kernel: [ 5493.523282] aacraid: Host adapter abort request...

I was under the impression, @sawk, that a controller failure is an easy fix, simply swap out the controller with another one and the drive "metadata" is used to reassamble. Now each statement is contradicting, so could either of you ellaborate on this matter? Thank you both, Jim

Alrighty, decided to go with Hardware RAID 6 again. Until I have a backup solution that I can afford in the 10s of TB capacity....I've herd a lot of folks mention ZFS filesystems. I also herd ZFS is good for large files, which I am considering seeing I have my DVDs/BDs to re-rip.. I don't do...

First off, thank you all for your comments whether they were directly for my original questions or a pointer for software vs hardware raid. The reason I sought a hardware RAID solution was due to the fact that for about 8 months I was running mdadm as a software RAID 6 solution...I think i...

@sawk Thanks sawk for this great information. I was looking at cards that had 4+ SFF-8087 internal interfaces because I have 20x1TB drives with 5xSFF-8087 to 4SATA breakout cables. I guess I thought that if I had a RAID controller that only had 1 or 2xSFF-8087 interfaces I was stuck with...

Hi all, so I recently lost a software RAID 6 due to the software itself failing. I'll spare the details because I could never proof what happened, all I know is non of my drives failed. I believe it has something to do with mdadm vs dmraid metadata conflict, but I could be wrong. Anyway...

Or maybe my question is to show the current active NAT mappings through a masqueraded firewall. Found http://sourceforge.net/projects/connview/ Let me know if y'all have any other ideas or suggestions. -Jim

Looking for a web-based monitoring/reporting tool that will display current connections on a linux based firewall. Similar to that of IPCops I found this, but it's command line only. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/display-iptables-router-nat-connections-using-netstat-nat/ Something similar to...

I will try this once the hardware comes in the mail and post back. Thanks all!