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    Installation on a watchguard x750e with 80Gb HDD

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      TieT
      last edited by

      @stephenw10:

      Do you have 'None/ACPI'  selected for the thermal sensor in System: Advanced: Miscellaneous:?

      Steve

      Yes i have none/acpi in pfSense

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        TieT
        last edited by

        I was searching if there is a script or program, that makes it possible to reboot the firewall with the front buttons.
        Probably making use of LCDproc.

        Or restart the webgui and some other cool stuff  :)

        If someone has experience with the LCDproc package and can point me in the right direction, would be great !  8)

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        • stephenw10S Offline
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Ceama posted a script that does things like a while ago in the x550e thread. It uses the lcdexec command.

          https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=20095.msg291392#msg291392

          I've never tried it myself. It might require some modifying.

          Steve

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            TieT
            last edited by

            nice, thx !!

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              TieT
              last edited by

              After upgrading to 2.2 I get this message when booting…

              cpu0 on motherboard
              est0: <enhanced speedstep="" frequency="" control="">on cpu0
              est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
              est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 6120f2906000f29
              device_attach: est0 attach returned 6
              p4tcc0: <cpu frequency="" thermal="" control="">on cpu0
              pmtimer0 on isa0

              Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
              cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
              fault virtual address  = 0x0
              fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
              instruction pointer    = 0x20:0xc0da8cf0
              stack pointer          = 0x28:0xc2420c28
              frame pointer          = 0x28:0xc2420c34
              code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                                      = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
              processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
              current process        = 0 (swapper)
              [ thread pid 0 tid 100000 ]
              Stopped at      strncmp+0x20:  movzbl  0(%esi),%ebx

              Anybody got a clue where to start ?</cpu></enhanced>

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                TieT
                last edited by

                nervermind… got it.

                set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
                (because I changed my HD from slave to master)

                set hw.ata.ata_dma="1"
                (because I flashed the V8 bios)

                @ Stephen
                I also put in a SL7SM, this thing flies like crazy now  :)

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                • stephenw10S Offline
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Hmm, interesting that that worked. That loader varible has been deprecated as far as I'm aware. The 2.2 Nano images are set to use DMA by default and you have to disable it if that's what you need. See:
                  https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/UpgradeGuide#Disk_Driver_Changes

                  Those old Pentium-M CPUs are so cheap now, great upgrade.  :)

                  Steve

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                    TieT
                    last edited by

                    yes i read that and also tried it, but no dice…
                    I kept getting the error.

                    thx for the link on LCDproc problem.
                    Got it working again  :)

                    snort also needed some softlinks in order to get it up and running again.

                    I searched through my heap of laptops i got lying around, and found the SL7SM  :)

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                    • stephenw10S Offline
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      Free is the best sort of upgrade.  ;D

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                        TieT
                        last edited by

                        yep  ;D

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                          Steve Evans
                          last edited by

                          Hi TieT,

                          Add the following to your /boot/loader.conf.local file.

                          hint.ata.0.dev0.mode=PIO4

                          Remove the line that reads:

                          hw.ata.ata_dma="0"

                          You will then find your disks configured thus (see dmesg) which shows PIO on the CF (ada0) and DMA on the HDD (ada1).

                          ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <sandisk sdcfh-004g="" hdx="" 6.02="">CFA-0 device
ada0: Serial Number ABZ042211193008
ada0: 16.700MB/s transfers (PIO4, PIO 512bytes)
ada0: 3815MB (7813120 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 7751C)
ada0: Previously was known as ad0
ada1 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0
ada1: <st9402115a 3.01="">ATA-6 device
ada1: Serial Number 5PV09ZED
ada1: 100.000MB/s transfers (UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
ada1: 38154MB (78140160 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada1: Previously was known as ad1</st9402115a></sandisk>

                          I'm now getting the performance I need for my disk used for logs and caching under 2.2.

                          $ diskinfo -tv /dev/ad1
/dev/ad1
        512             # sectorsize
        40007761920     # mediasize in bytes (37G)
        78140160        # mediasize in sectors
        0               # stripesize
        0               # stripeoffset
        77520           # Cylinders according to firmware.
        16              # Heads according to firmware.
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.
        5PV09ZED        # Disk ident.

Seek times:
        Full stroke:      250 iter in   7.926598 sec =   31.706 msec
        Half stroke:      250 iter in   6.203416 sec =   24.814 msec
        Quarter stroke:   500 iter in   9.877891 sec =   19.756 msec
        Short forward:    400 iter in   3.476113 sec =    8.690 msec
        Short backward:   400 iter in   2.381591 sec =    5.954 msec
        Seq outer:       2048 iter in   0.197696 sec =    0.097 msec
        Seq inner:       2048 iter in   0.179296 sec =    0.088 msec
Transfer rates:
        outside:       102400 kbytes in   3.135350 sec =    32660 kbytes/sec
        middle:        102400 kbytes in   3.745807 sec =    27337 kbytes/sec
        inside:        102400 kbytes in   5.382397 sec =    19025 kbytes/sec

                          Steve

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                          • stephenw10S Offline
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Tie isn't booting from the CF card so it may not be necessary to disable DMA at all.

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                              Steve Evans
                              last edited by

                              I see he's updated his BIOS. Missed that.

                              Steve

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                              • stephenw10S Offline
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                Yeah, seems slightly odd that he needed to do anything.  :-\

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                                  TieT
                                  last edited by

                                  I get these numbers:

                                  [2.2-RELEASE][admin@fw1.home]/root: diskinfo -tv ad0
ad0
        512             # sectorsize
        80026361856     # mediasize in bytes (75G)
        156301488       # mediasize in sectors
        0               # stripesize
        0               # stripeoffset
        155061          # Cylinders according to firmware.
        16              # Heads according to firmware.
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.
        WD-WXEX08TJ6328 # Disk ident.

Seek times:
        Full stroke:      250 iter in  11.428668 sec =   45.715 msec
        Half stroke:      250 iter in   7.231832 sec =   28.927 msec
        Quarter stroke:   500 iter in  15.496462 sec =   30.993 msec
        Short forward:    400 iter in   5.091478 sec =   12.729 msec
        Short backward:   400 iter in   4.274550 sec =   10.686 msec
        Seq outer:       2048 iter in   0.328848 sec =    0.161 msec
        Seq inner:       2048 iter in   0.309770 sec =    0.151 msec
Transfer rates:
        outside:       102400 kbytes in   3.423876 sec =    29908 kbytes/sec
        middle:        102400 kbytes in   4.502569 sec =    22743 kbytes/sec
        inside:        102400 kbytes in   4.267557 sec =    23995 kbytes/sec

                                  But I will test it again today and post back the results, maybe i overlooked something.

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                                    TieT
                                    last edited by

                                    You guys where right, the line doesn't do anything and my system booted perfect when i removed it.

                                    hw.ata.ata_dma="1"

                                    I think it was a layer 8 problem… trying to do too much at the same time  :)

                                    these are my results now

                                    
ata0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable
ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <wdc wd800beve-00uyt0="" 01.04a01="">ATA-7 device
ada0: Serial Number WD-WXEX08TJ6328
ada0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 8192bytes)
ada0: 76319MB (156301488 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada0: Previously was known as ad0</wdc> 

                                    [2.2-RELEASE][admin@fw1.home]/root: diskinfo -tv ad0
ad0
        512             # sectorsize
        80026361856     # mediasize in bytes (75G)
        156301488       # mediasize in sectors
        0               # stripesize
        0               # stripeoffset
        155061          # Cylinders according to firmware.
        16              # Heads according to firmware.
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.
        WD-WXEX08TJ6328 # Disk ident.

Seek times:
        Full stroke:      250 iter in  10.765901 sec =   43.064 msec
        Half stroke:      250 iter in   8.400064 sec =   33.600 msec
        Quarter stroke:   500 iter in  15.856698 sec =   31.713 msec
        Short forward:    400 iter in   5.024369 sec =   12.561 msec
        Short backward:   400 iter in   5.086160 sec =   12.715 msec
        Seq outer:       2048 iter in   0.319964 sec =    0.156 msec
        Seq inner:       2048 iter in   0.329491 sec =    0.161 msec
Transfer rates:
        outside:       102400 kbytes in   3.433698 sec =    29822 kbytes/sec
        middle:        102400 kbytes in   3.800647 sec =    26943 kbytes/sec
        inside:        102400 kbytes in   4.714269 sec =    21721 kbytes/sec

                                    Conclusion: need a faster disk  ;D

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                                    • stephenw10S Offline
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                      Thanks for testing that. I was pretty sure but it's nice to know for certain.  :)

                                      Steve

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