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Your typo is making your statement unclear, but if you're saying that sector numbering starts from the inside of a platter and grows outward, you are wrong: http://www.storagereview.com/guide/tracksZBR.html Hard disks fill their platters from the outside in.

You should. Not only is it consuming disk space, it's consuming disk space in the fastest part of your disk (the outer diameter of your platters).

Why is this so elusive? Just use pf's route-to/reply-to or ipfw's fwd.

A patch would be the least you should do, but it'll probably need to be maintained. A sed replacement in the relevant Makefile might have greater longevity - just keep a patch against the Makefile.

I've had some time to do more work on this. Changes include: Renamed to amount and version set to 0.5. Improved handling of Android and other similar devices. File system detection using file. (thanks wblock) Untested ext2fs support. Command line utility added. Logging moved from stdout to...

If you're doing NAT in ppp (starting it with -nat argument, or enabling nat in your config), then incoming packets get NATed first (before IPFW), and outgoing packets last (after IPFW).

The case itself is all 5.25", but it comes with 3.5" bay reducers pre-installed. The bay reducers are quite decent too - fanned, air filtering, vibration absorption, and thumbscrews.

Airflow in the case is beyond excellent. All the Icydocks have fans themselves too, and no drive goes above 46 Celcius. I don't see any cooling issues provided the fans are reliable.

Aligning inside the BSD label is the easiest because it can be done without having to also align on the legacy BIOS track boundaries. With MBR partitions your alignments have to meet two constraints: 1 MiB boundaries and 32256 byte boundaries (63*512). Yes. For partitioning you might find...

I don't know about sysinstall, but if it were me I'd just roll my own bootable USB stick with the install distributions on it. Write a shell script to do the disk partitioning using gpart, and then just run the install.sh scripts in each distribution that you want installed. Package...

The motherboard and BIOS play a vital role in determining how well all the system components will work, but in general FreeBSD works great on Atom based systems. And yes, the CPU is x86, and possibly amd64 too depending on which particular Atom CPU it is.

You are right, but the situation is not perfect right now. One particular hang-up with the claim of it working with "any" DE/WM is the difficulty in getting said script interfaced with the UI. How do you create a popup/icon/whatever in a standard way that the user can interact with? Probably...

To my knowledge neither do, but newfs does have a "-E" parameter to have it trim the device when a filesystem is created. I don't know if it's wise, but that is what I do. If your system is swapping heavily, I'm sure it is a bad idea, but nowadays with RAM so abundant, heavy swapping is quite...

Do you have the AOC-USAS2-L8i, or which one? How did your card ship, and what works with mps? My L8i came as 0x0072 out the box, and worked fine with mps and all disks showing up as if it were an HBA. Strangely, everything I read about this card is that it ships with IR firmware, and...

You can't believe the advertised sector size. Check your drive specifications - if it is said to be "advanced format" then it is a 4k drive. You can also test by writing to it on and off 4k boundaries - it'll be reproducibly slower unaligned.

If, per chance, you've enabled root logins you can try SCP/SFTP into your system and replace your password databases...

Also, in future I recommend installing shells/bash-static instead.

That sounds like an advantage. :P

Hopefully this increases the push behind SIP/XMPP!

Good answers from Phoenix. I can confirm that mps and this card handles hot-swap and hot-plug fine. Dead device seems to cause a cryptic kernel message that repeats every second. We chose this card because in total we'll have 14 disks attached - 4-5 on board, 8 on the Supermicro controller...