Archives for July 2005

HighPoint Rocket Raid 1640 and fakeraids

I just found some interesting info about RAID’s. It appears to be that almost all cheap (below $300) RAID controllers are so called fakeraids. Meaning they don’t have any RAID hardware onboard. They are just plain PATA/SATA disk controllers that have no RAID features plus some proprietary software that does all the RAID-related calculations. Because [...]

32-bit PCI, 64-bit PCI, and PCI-X compatibility

For a couple of last days I was trying to figure out whether PCI-X is, at least theoretically, backward compatible with plain PCI standard (both 32- and 64-bit). Finally I’ve found an article that provides a good description and answers the question.

Propfind 302 found error in Subversion

I just found a very ugly problem that appears in Subversion when ErrorDocument 404 handler is enabled in Apache like this:
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.blah.com
Basically what it adds up to is that Subversion refuses to add any new files to a repository and shows propfind 302 found error if ErrorDocument 404 handler is enabled.
The solution is to [...]

Linux PPC64 regression tests of Jikes RVM CVS head

For the time being Linux PPC64 regression tests of Jikes RVM CVS head willbe started manually. I plan on doing this at least once a week.
The need for this arises from the fact that for some reason the host IBM Java SDK crashes during the build process if regression tests start as a cron job:
(built [...]