From hsu at wlansystems.com  Wed Oct 29 14:55:54 2008
From: hsu at wlansystems.com (Heikki Suonsivu)
Date: Wed Oct 29 14:56:03 2008
Subject: Pretec and Transcend 32G CF cards failing in FreeBSD (Linux works)
Message-ID: <490872EA.10804@wlansystems.com>

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

From tim-lists at bishnet.net  Wed Oct 29 15:24:04 2008
From: tim-lists at bishnet.net (Tim Bishop)
Date: Wed Oct 29 15:24:20 2008
Subject: NanoBSD and cron
Message-ID: <20081029152337.GC45796@carrick.bishnet.net>

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.

-- 
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http://www.bishnet.net/tim/
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From eugen at kuzbass.ru  Wed Oct 29 16:53:24 2008
From: eugen at kuzbass.ru (Eugene Grosbein)
Date: Wed Oct 29 16:53:31 2008
Subject: NanoBSD and cron
In-Reply-To: <20081029152337.GC45796@carrick.bishnet.net>
References: <20081029152337.GC45796@carrick.bishnet.net>
Message-ID: <20081029165247.GA59926@svzserv.kemerovo.su>

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