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Areca CLI issues on 2.6.15-mm4

As dropkick has an Areca ARC-1120 controller I ofcourse needed kernel support for it. Most of the Linux machines with Areca's we use at work are running the -mm tree, because it has the areca driver as a default driver option, and contains some additional patches for the areca card.

Unfortunately it seems that 2.6.15-mm4 has some problems when you try to use the CLI tool from Areca (any version). It just oopses and asks you gently to reboot the machine. I saw that in 2.6.16-rc*-mm* there are some updates for the Areca driver which may fix this issue. I'll try this kernel version when I'm at work again (tuesday). If this will not fix the issue, I'll be going for a stock 2.6.15.X kernel with the individual Areca patch.

§ - posted by - * Areca - * No comments yet - 27 Feb '06 -09:46

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New server!

My weblog is now hosted on my new server! The new server name is dropkick

It has the following specifications:
The disks are in a RAID-5 setup for reliability (I started hating failing disks after 3 Maxtor disks died in one week). It's running Debian GNU/Linux instead of Solaris (which ran on Polaris).

I moved the webserver to Apache 2. It currently also serves all my other websites and my mailserver (which I moved off phoebe towards this one)

§ - posted by - * default - * two comments, already - 26 Feb '06 -10:56

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SUN Ultra-60 For Sale

Yes, it's going away.....

polaris.oisec.net is for sale. SOLD! It's an SUN Microsystems Ultra-60 with the following specifications

System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4u Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz)
System clock frequency: 99 MHz
Memory size: 1536 Megabytes

========================= CPUs =========================

                    Run   Ecache   CPU    CPU
Brd  CPU   Module   MHz     MB    Impl.   Mask
---  ---  -------  -----  ------  ------  ----
 0     0     0      296     2.0   US-II    2.0
 0     2     2      296     2.0   US-II    1.1

========================= IO Cards =========================

     Bus   Freq
Brd  Type  MHz   Slot        Name                          Model
---  ----  ----  ----------  ----------------------------  --------------------
 0   PCI    33     On-Board  network-SUNW,hme                                 
 0   PCI    33     On-Board  scsi-glm/disk (block)         Symbios,53C875     
 0   PCI    33     On-Board  scsi-glm/disk (block)         Symbios,53C875     
 0   PCI    33      PCI66 1  SUNW,hme-pci108e,1001         SUNW,qsi-cheerio

- 2x 36GB 10K RPM U160 SCSI
- Yamaha 16/8/24 CD-RW Drive

Starting bid is 250 EURO (current bid is 250 EUR)

§ - posted by - * default - * No comments yet - 08 Feb '06 -10:31

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