Comments for A Blog by Tim Bishop

Comment on Current Cost Electricity Meter by Dale Lane

Dale Lane — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:05:06 +0000

Have you heard about Home Camp? If you’re still interested in CurrentCost-type stuff, you might find it fun - check out http://homecamp.pbwiki.com/

It’s a CurrentCost-themed hackday and unconference - a day’s discussion and hacking for anything related to monitoring energy usage.

Kind regards, D

Comment on Connecting to and LDAP server using Kerberos authentication in Perl by Oliver Gorwits

Oliver Gorwits — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:08:53 +0000

You can also use the k5start command line tool to prime the Kerberos ticket cache and keep it refreshed. This is useful if your Perl code is a daemon, so you want to always make sure the cache has tickets to use in it.

Well done on a nice succinct HOWTO on this dark art

p.e. k5start is usually in an OS package called kstart.

Comment on Eduroam on FreeBSD by Tim Bishop

Tim Bishop — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:27:40 +0000

I suppose it was largely an exercise in documenting it

Comment on Eduroam on FreeBSD by pao

pao — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:11:21 +0000

Old news. I had that working happily quite some time ago.

Comment on “I’ll build a new server; it’s got to be easier than patching up the old one…” by Urs Mueller

Urs Mueller — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:53:08 +0000

Thanks for blogging about. Finally I have found a spot to look at.
Have an Areca ARC-1680 SAS/SATA-RAID controller and eight ST3500320NS. Under heavy load, the ARC-1680 looses drives.
Will see, if SEAGATE will provide me the new Firmware.

Comment on “I’ll build a new server; it’s got to be easier than patching up the old one…” by Clemens Rossell

Clemens Rossell — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:29:31 +0000

Thanks so much for blogging about this issue! I found it through a Google search, after running mad trying to figure out why my RAID5 array keeps going into a degraded state. I also am using the 3Ware 9690SA-4I card, however, I’m using Seagate 7200.11 drives (very similar to ES.2 model). They came with SD15 firmware. I’ve contacted 3Ware and they said I need to replace my cables and reseat my card/drives (which obviously is not the issue). I really hope someone at 3Ware is investigating this issue, other Google searches have found lots of folks have this issue and Seagate tells me the SD15 firmware is the latest for the model drive I own. So annoying. Nobody seems to be looking into this issue from either company.

Comment on “I’ll build a new server; it’s got to be easier than patching up the old one…” by mattias

mattias — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:07:18 +0000

I have similar issues with a ST31000340NS drive with SN04 firmware (CRC-errors and timouts). I’ve found a download link for the AN05 version over at Adaptecs Knowledge base, but have been unable to find version SN05.

Maybe you could mail me a the link too?

Comment on “I’ll build a new server; it’s got to be easier than patching up the old one…” by Riaan

Riaan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:24:08 +0000

Hi, can you please mail me the link you used for the AN05 firmware as well?

I downloaded the file at http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/download/ES2AN05B-3D4DMoose.iso but it only contains a text file, no update utility or firmware image!

Comment on “Any idea WTF is going on?” by pao

pao — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:58:25 +0000

You were doing stuff without having had breakfast?!

I am horrified.

Still it was a fun day.

Comment on “I’ll build a new server; it’s got to be easier than patching up the old one…” by Tim Bishop

Tim Bishop — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:07:22 +0000

I’ve had contact from someone else who’s having similar issues with eight 7200.11 drives connected to the same card. Dropping the speed to 1.5Gb/s reduced his timeout problems (under load), but didn’t completely resolve them. He also gets CRC errors but so far hasn’t found a firmware that resolves the issue.

It looks like this problem might resurface one day

Come on 3ware and/or Seagate, pull your fingers out!