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Forum: Storage (alternative) September 28th 10, 09:19 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 38
Views: 1,730
Posted By David Brown
dmesg shows ata2 errors lately.

On 28/09/2010 19:47, GMAN wrote:
In , "Rod wrote:
GMAN wrote


The second you start saturating the USB bus with...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 25th 10, 05:26 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 15
Views: 1,042
Posted By David Brown
puzzled about files on disk

On 25/09/2010 07:35, John Turco wrote:
David Brown wrote:

On 06/09/2010 22:33, Arno wrote:
John wrote:
Arno wrote:

John...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 6th 10, 11:07 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 15
Views: 1,042
Posted By David Brown
puzzled about files on disk

On 06/09/2010 22:33, Arno wrote:
John wrote:
Arno wrote:

John wrote:

heavily edited for brevity

If I understand...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 5th 10, 07:07 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 8
Views: 594
Posted By David Brown
RAID 5 rebuild problem

On 02/09/2010 15:29, hexadecimal0f wrote:
The RAID controller is a PERC4/Di and The HDDS are Ultra 320
(all of them the same type). We are lucky we backed up
everything!! We will...
Forum: Storage (alternative) August 30th 10, 08:10 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 30
Views: 992
Posted By David Brown
OEM vs. Retail hard drive

Rod Speed wrote:
Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:57:37 +1000, "Simon Brown"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 7th 10, 07:11 PM Posted to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 26
Views: 1,623
Posted By David Brown
How to copy files from CD to HD in Linux? HELP! HELP ME I'M STUCKIN THE 1980S WITH LINUX!

RayLopez99 wrote:


snip

OK, THE MAKE FILE IS PRECOMPILED, CHECK. SO WHY BOTHER WITH COMPILING
SOURCE CODE? THIS MAKES NO SENSE TO ME, AND I CODE.


This is a classic - "the make file is...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's June 3rd 10, 12:07 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.setup
Replies: 68
Views: 2,302
Posted By David Brown
Anybody use Linux? For old hardware, which distro?

RayLopez99 wrote:
On Jun 2, 4:32 pm, David Brown
wrote:
On 02/06/2010 14:36, RayLopez99 wrote:

Thinking of using on an old 1998 laptop PC that...
Forum: Storage (alternative) April 28th 10, 08:48 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 15
Views: 731
Posted By David Brown
sick of tapes - good disk-based backup solution for small/mediumbusinesses?

Arno wrote:
David Brown wrote:
On 28/04/2010 13:32, Kremlar wrote:
You're right, it is a hangover from my current mentality and something I
need to...
Forum: Storage (alternative) March 9th 10, 06:55 PM Posted to comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 53
Views: 2,087
Posted By David Brown
HDD problems causing Kernel panics in Linux/Debian?

Rod Speed wrote:
Ant wrote
Arno wrote

On the other hand, the serial interface is simple, so console
output, including error messages, will still be written to it.
If you need that...
Forum: Storage (alternative) March 7th 10, 09:14 PM Posted to comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 53
Views: 2,087
Posted By David Brown
HDD problems causing Kernel panics in Linux/Debian?

Ant wrote:
On 3/7/2010 9:20 AM PT, Arno typed:

You don't need to, no disk access is possible after a kernel
panic, hence no loging. The only thing you can do, is to
look at the screen...
Forum: Storage (alternative) February 28th 10, 12:01 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 10
Views: 655
Posted By David Brown
On-disk format of fakeraid raid1

bigby wrote:
David Brown wrote:
I've seen a fair number of computers over the years - perhaps a couple
of hundred. I can only think of one occasion when I saw a true hard
disk failure...
Forum: Storage (alternative) February 27th 10, 11:45 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 11
Views: 1,116
Posted By David Brown
Housing two 2.5-inch hard disks in one 3.5-inch drive bay?

Rod Speed wrote:
David Brown wrote
Man-wai Chang to The Door (24000bps) wrote

Found such a toy in local computer shopping arcade.

Is it gonna kill both hard disks by heat?

...
Forum: Storage (alternative) February 25th 10, 07:46 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 10
Views: 655
Posted By David Brown
On-disk format of fakeraid raid1

bigby wrote:
Bob Willard wrote:
If you restore from an image-mode backup of the set of all of
the HDs it should result in all apps being correctly installed.
You may need to do a...
Forum: Storage (alternative) February 23rd 10, 07:28 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 10
Views: 655
Posted By David Brown
On-disk format of fakeraid raid1

bigby wrote:
Bob Willard wrote:
bigby wrote:
Backups will also work if you decide to replace the HDs in your
RAIDset, to increase capacity or speed; or if you decide to
upgrade the MB...
Forum: Storage (alternative) February 10th 10, 10:35 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 19
Views: 674
Posted By David Brown
Most reliable 2 tb drive

Rod Speed wrote:
Daniel Prince wrote

In your opinion, what is the most reliable two-terabyte hard drive?

It isnt possible to say that yet, they are too new to have much history yet.

...
Forum: Storage (alternative) February 8th 10, 08:46 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 14
Views: 767
Posted By David Brown
1TB Flash in 3.5" size?

Arno wrote:
David Brown wrote:
Barry OGrady wrote:
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:13:20 -0800, "trs80" wrote:

Does anyone yet make...
Forum: Storage (alternative) February 8th 10, 12:41 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 14
Views: 767
Posted By David Brown
1TB Flash in 3.5" size?

Arno wrote:
trs80 wrote:
Does anyone yet make a TB Flash memory in a 3.5" drive physical format. If
so, could you pass on a reference? The interface would need to support...
Forum: Storage (alternative) February 8th 10, 12:38 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 14
Views: 767
Posted By David Brown
1TB Flash in 3.5" size?

Barry OGrady wrote:
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:13:20 -0800, "trs80" wrote:

Does anyone yet make a TB Flash memory in a 3.5" drive physical format. If
so, could you pass on a...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 19th 10, 10:04 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 13
Views: 574
Posted By David Brown
Remote undelete?

wrote:
On Jan 19, 3:23 pm, mynick wrote:
On Jan 19, 1:56 am, Arno wrote:





In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage mynick...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 11th 10, 09:23 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 94
Views: 2,090
Posted By David Brown
Follow up to defrag validity discussion: please read

Ed Light wrote:
On 1/11/2010 12:22 AM, David Brown wrote:

I'm not sure that /anyone/ is doing much in the way of "properly
documented tests"

Find someone who hasn't defragged for a...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 10th 10, 10:55 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 94
Views: 2,090
Posted By David Brown
Follow up to defrag validity discussion: please read

Rod Speed wrote:
David Brown wrote:
Cronos wrote:
David Brown wrote:

Nothing came close to being a sensible explanation of the claimed
effects.

OK, I sent them your...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 10th 10, 08:39 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 94
Views: 2,090
Posted By David Brown
Follow up to defrag validity discussion: please read

Arno wrote:
David Brown wrote:
Cronos wrote:
David Brown wrote:

Nothing came close to being a sensible explanation of the claimed
...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 10th 10, 12:21 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 94
Views: 2,090
Posted By David Brown
Follow up to defrag validity discussion: please read

Cronos wrote:
David Brown wrote:
Some of it is
due to commercial forces - there are companies making a living out of
selling defragmentation software, and they need people to believe it...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 10th 10, 11:38 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 94
Views: 2,090
Posted By David Brown
Follow up to defrag validity discussion: please read

Cronos wrote:
David Brown wrote:

Nothing came close to being a sensible explanation of the claimed
effects.


OK, I sent them your comments and am not going to post any more on the...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 9th 10, 11:21 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 94
Views: 2,090
Posted By David Brown
Follow up to defrag validity discussion: please read

Cronos wrote:
Rod Speed wrote:

And when we keep telling fools like you that defragging wont
have any effect at all on anything except file copys with real
world personal desktop...
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