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January 24, 2006
Once more into the hellmouth...
At work, we're creating a new SAN out of more-or-less off the shelf gear. We have a hodge-podge of operating systems: Novell (primary SAN user), FreeBSD, Linux, Irix, Solaris. We decided to go with our favorite el-cheapo RAID cabinet vendor, ACNC for their high-density SATA-FC units, and the qlogic starter SAN kits for HBAs and switches.
Anywho, I've been on the spear's end for this, which is exciting. I was having problems getting FreeBSD to work with the qlogic HBAs, however. The isp driver was loading, but the JetStor unit was not being detected by the OS (despite being seen by the card's BIOS). It turns out that the ispfw module needs to not be a kernel module, but rather needs to be compiled in the kernel, for it to work properly with the isp driver being compiled in. Go figure.
Here's hoping Google indexes this, so some other poor sap doesn't spend half of forever cursing before figuring out they need a custom kernel :)
Posted by jeff at 02:07 PM | Comments (0)
January 17, 2006
podcasts, iTunes, ITM, etc.
Just a brain dump for the Internet. iTunes version 6.0 does not in fact pull album art from the itunes namespace in the RSS feed as one would hope. Instead, it appears that the ITMS might use the field, but iTunes itself relies the JPG being added to the mp3 (yes, this is possible. No, I didn't know about it either) using the "OTHER" filetype. I used eyeD3. Version 2.3 of the ID3 spec seems to work best.
Jesus christ was that hard to debug.
Posted by jeff at 07:14 PM | Comments (0)
January 03, 2006
Hiking at Lost Maples
(stealing Marius's format for these entries)
Hiked on: December 28th, 2005
Weather conditions: 80F or thereabouts. Clear skies. No precip on ground.
Elevation: 2000-2300 (more, actually, but I don't have a topo for the park)
Location: near Vanderpool, TX
Pictures: none
TPWD: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lost_maples/
Distance: 13mi
I went on this trail with some friends from ASS (Bryan, Tina, Sarah, Clint, Joe, Andrey, and Julie). The trail is very developed for the most part, with steep ascents often resulting in steps being cut out of the mountain. The first half of the hike was a bit slow. We did the East Trail at about a mile a hour, mostly because we were busy taking photos and looking at the scenery. Andrey especially had a firm plan to take a certain number of photos of "nice things". Towards the West Trail, things are a bit less picturesque and the trail gets a bit rougher.
Bryan and I separated from the group to complete the West Loop. It was more rugged than the main trail, with the same elevation change we had previously completed (up and down rock slides instead of steps, however). We made good time, and finished the eight miles in maybe 4 hours.
Notes: hiking shoes would be nice for dry trails like this. My trekking poles worked a wonder.
Posted by jeff at 02:04 PM | Comments (0)