Hi,  are you guys connecting your large discs directly to the Qube 2  
or using an interface card?  I thought it was limited to <137GB.

Nick

On 10 Jan 2007, at 06:50, Alex Pelts wrote:

> Glyn,
> I just tried to transfer large files between netbsd and windows.  
> That is the only computers I have. I made a big 10GB file using dd  
> from /dev/zero then tried to transfer it to windows. I could only  
> transfer 4GB because my windows filesystem is fat32 so the file  
> size is limited. But I could transfer 4GB 3 times without qube ever  
> locking up or anything of the sort. So I assume my qube is stable.
> I am running netbsd-3 kernel from cvs and 3.1 userland. Until I  
> rebuilt kernel with SOSEND_NO_LOAN option my box crashed regularly  
> but after that I discovered new faith in netbsd :) It seems stable  
> enough as webserver.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
>
> Glyn Astill wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>> It'd be interesting if you could try a large amount of data and see
>> what happens.
>> I have similar problems to Claudio (I am using 3.99.17), whereby if I
>> try to copy over a lot of data to a samba share (maybe its samba at
>> fault? I haven't tried any other method) We're talking anywhere
>> between 5 and 80 gig then at some point the qube stops responding,
>> and thats it, it's gone and needs to be rebooted.
>> However I have managed to copy a lot of data without it crashing, I
>> think this is just luck, but on every occasion I've had an ssh
>> connection running top so I can see the utilisation, and I'm sure
>> this seems to help.
>> Glyn
>> --- Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>> I run netbsd-3 branch without any problems for a long time.
>>> Networking is stable and I can transfer any large file. I have  
>>> not tried 4gig
>>> but I can try it.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian McEwen wrote:
>>>> On Jan 7, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Claudio Leiva S wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi guys:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is kind of wired, for long time I battled with 3 and my
>>> Qube and at
>>>>> last I give up because:
>>>>>
>>>> I thought you had 3.99.17 working fine, which is just about 4.0.
>>>>
>>>> What happened to:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Rowdy:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been using 3.99.17 restore cd created by Dennis
>>> Chernoivanov
>>>>> without any issue, in fact it works very good on my Qube and it
>>> does
>>>>> not  have any problem at the moment to set up the network, you
>>> should
>>>>> give it a try!!.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that 3.0.1 is out, have somebody try it on a Qube??.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Claudio Leiva
>>>>> Las Vegas, Nevada
>>>>> USA
>>>>> http://cleiva.no-ip.com
>>>>> http://cleiva.no-ip.com/forum
>>>>> (Powered By NetBSD for Cobalt)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rowdy"
>>> <rowdy@netspace.net.au>
>>>>> To: <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:16 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: Setting up root. ..
>>>>
>>>
>> Glyn Astill
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