It is very actual question “mount iso in freebsd“. However mounting of iso is very easy. Let’s make sure it: Firstly we need to make virtual device for our iso image (use mdconfig for it): howtobsd# mdconfig -a -f /path_to_iso/Mac_OS_X.iso md0 md0 (command return) – it is name of virtual device (should appear in /dev/md0). [...]
Posted on October 3rd, 2011 by admin
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Usually hdd for notebooks (and some models for desktop, for example models of WD Caviar Green series) includes function of head parking for powersave. This function parks heads after few seconds of inactivity.A lot of head parkings isn’t good for hdd. You can check your smart data using utility smartmontools: howtobsd# smartctl -a /dev/ad0 | [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2010 by admin
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S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring hdd, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). This monitoring system support practically all hdd disks. You have to install smartmontools for working with smart on FreeBSD. I suggest you have alredy installed it. #smartctl -a /dev/ad1 This command show you many various indicatos about your disk (rate of hardware read errors, count of reallocated sectors, [...]
Posted on August 17th, 2010 by admin
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It’s can be useful, when you current hard drive disk too small or going out of order. I’ve moved my FreeBSD system with this simple method twice. At last I’ve moved System from production server. New hdd has added in software RAID-1 and work correct.So, I think you won’t have some kind of problem. Any [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2010 by admin
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freebsd geom mirror howto I did RAID-1 on the FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE with two identical HDD – WD15EARS (1,5Tb) I think you can use any hhd on condition that firs device have to be smoller size than second. in my case: – FreeBSD detect it as ad10 and ad16 – System has been installed in ad10 [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2010 by admin
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Sil3112 SATA Controller FreeBSD 7.2
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 by admin
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