> inquiry WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
> ...
> The new drive is completely blank. It has 4096 byte sector size, and
> disk/mbr fails.
>
> su# disk/mbr -m /386/mbr /dev/sdE1/data
> mbr: secsize 4096 invalid
Interesting. I have a WD10EARS which lies about its sector size - it
reports 512 although it's rea
> I have a WD10EARS which lies about its sector size
Some further information: I'm using the sdata driver rather than
sdiahci because my motherboard doesn't support ahci. This may be why
I'm seeing the disk as having 512-byte sectors not 4096.
You could try telling your BIOS to use the disk in A
it's impressive that by 2011 we are unable to drive disks in as straightforward
a manner as in the 1970s. better still, there are several competing miserable
standards (and i'm not even including USB).
On Fri Sep 30 05:37:57 EDT 2011, fors...@terzarima.net wrote:
> it's impressive that by 2011 we are unable to drive disks in as
> straightforward
> a manner as in the 1970s. better still, there are several competing miserable
> standards (and i'm not even including USB).
this is one case where i
On Fri Sep 30 04:55:43 EDT 2011, 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote:
> > I have a WD10EARS which lies about its sector size
>
> Some further information: I'm using the sdata driver rather than
> sdiahci because my motherboard doesn't support ahci. This may be why
> I'm seeing the disk as having 512-byte se
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:44:01 +0100
Charles Forsyth wrote:
> it's impressive that by 2011 we are unable to drive disks in as
> straightforward
> a manner as in the 1970s. better still, there are several competing miserable
> standards (and i'm not even including USB).
Not to be too depressive, b
Just curious what 9fans use, for home and/or work, to backup their macs.
time machine?
to a local (usb,firewire) disk?
or remote (time capsule, nas (not officially sanctioned by apple))?
or eat our own dog food and use eg. venti?
or tra?
or no backup necessary because everything important is alr
> Just curious what 9fans use, for home and/or work, to backup their macs.
I use venti. On servers, I use /n/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/vacbak from cron
and have the system submit the score to my plan9 server. I tried using vbackup
first, but there's a huge volume of stuff on these systems I d
> When non-plan9 people ask me this question I tell them to get an external
> disk and use Time Machine.
I would tell it to Plan9 folks as well. There is no way to
recover from a catestrophic disk failure on a Mac using venti.
Two days ago I spent $137 on a 1TB external USB disk. I now have an
On Fri Sep 30 13:51:19 EDT 2011, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote:
> > When non-plan9 people ask me this question I tell them to get an external
> > disk and use Time Machine.
>
> I would tell it to Plan9 folks as well. There is no way to
> recover from a catestrophic disk failure on a Mac using venti.
>
> backup:
> 1. power down mac. remove hard drive.
> 2. stuff drive as one gigantic file into venti.
>
> restore:
> 1. copy your backup onto drive
> 2. install hard drive. power up mac.
Disassembling the machine every night to back it up is not on.
On Fri Sep 30 15:22:19 EDT 2011, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote:
> > backup:
> > 1. power down mac. remove hard drive.
> > 2. stuff drive as one gigantic file into venti.
> >
> > restore:
> > 1. copy your backup onto drive
> > 2. install hard drive. power up mac.
>
> Disassembling the machine ever
> how come you keep changing the parameters after you get
> in-principle solutions? :-)
Ask the guys who make those crappy hard disk ball bearings.
They are the ones who keep changing the parameters :-P
At work, I use Time Machine to a Linux server, then vac the Time
Machine files to venti.
At home, I just use Time Machine to a Linux server. I am planning to
add the vac to venti at some point.
Thanks,
Lucho
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Axel Belinfante
wrote:
> Just curious what 9fans us
On Fri Sep 30 15:46:25 EDT 2011, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote:
> > how come you keep changing the parameters after you get
> > in-principle solutions? :-)
>
> Ask the guys who make those crappy hard disk ball bearings.
> They are the ones who keep changing the parameters :-P
there are no hard drives
What I do is to consider the macs as volatile.
Very much like "firmware".
All the stuff I care about is in our main file server.
I might either use my files using the octopus or just cache them in the local
disk of the mac when I need that.
To recover such "firmware", yes, I use an external disk a
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:19:26 +0200 Axel Belinfante
wrote:
> Just curious what 9fans use, for home and/or work, to backup their macs.
I use Time machine on zfs + freebsd + netatalk. [Broken ATM
since the Lion uprgade. Need to update to netatalk-2.2.1]
> context: we are reconsidering how to do t
> I'm seeing missing recipes. Lion and XCode 4.2
I get nearly identical output on Snow Leopard with XCode 4.0.2 (see below).
BUT if I manually copy o.devdraw from $PLAN9/src/cmd/devdraw to
$PLAN9/bin/devdraw, nearly everything seems to work. The best part
(for me) is that now my acme and 9term w
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