With every other Unix version (and Windows NT, since I am at it), I have never seen a drive consistancy check require manual intervention.
Allow me to protest. I have worked in places that used BDS/OS (Commercial BSD variant from BSDi) and there were some servers that crashed because of file system problems, like freeing an already free block. These crashes regularly required manual intervention.
Note that this was not a case of a power outage corrupting the disk, the disk corruption caused the crash!
And this "kuydzu hardware detection utility"... how often does the hardware configuration of a machine change? What's the point in running this thing everytime the machine boots; don't you know when the hardware has been changed? Would you like it if windows ran a hardware discovery everytime the machine booted up?
I don't know about you, but for a lot of people the main reason for a reboot is a hardware change or an OS update ( followed by a power outage ).
57600 is the serial port speed the modem is using to talk to your computer.
This is probably limiting the actual data transfer rate, as the modem may be doing data compression over the phone line, but does not do this over the serial link.
I would recommend changing the serial speed to 115200, if your UART can handle it. Only relatively old hardware would have a problem with this speed.
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Allow me to protest. I have worked in places that used BDS/OS (Commercial BSD variant from BSDi) and there were some servers that crashed because of file system problems, like freeing an already free block. These crashes regularly required manual intervention.
Note that this was not a case of a power outage corrupting the disk, the disk corruption caused the crash!
Anybody got any rumours ?
I don't know about you, but for a lot of people the main reason for a reboot is a hardware change or an OS update ( followed by a power outage ).
How often do you reboot anyway ?
57600 is the serial port speed the modem is using to talk to your computer.
This is probably limiting the actual data transfer rate, as the modem may be doing data compression over the phone line, but does not do this over the serial link.
I would recommend changing the serial speed to 115200, if your UART can handle it. Only relatively old hardware would have a problem with this speed.