Thomas A. Anderson composed on 2020-12-29 07:58 (UTC+0100):
> I have been "using" mdadm to run software raid1 (stripping) on a file
> server i have been running.
RAID 1 is two devices that are mirrors of each other, redundancy, with some loss
in speed. Loose one device, and you still have all you
Hi.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 07:58:50AM +0100, Thomas A. Anderson wrote:
> I have been "using" mdadm to run software raid1 (stripping) on a file
> server i have been running.
RAID1 is mirroring. Stripping is RAID0.
RAID1 provides redundancy. RAID0 does not.
> It is only now that I wonder
Hello,
I have been "using" mdadm to run software raid1 (stripping) on a file
server i have been running.
None of the drives have failed, and I have even setup subsequent drives
in the same scenario.
It is only now that I wonder if I am even using RAID1 properly? In other
words, now that I try to
The Wanderer writes:
On 2020-12-28 at 16:59, Felix Miata wrote:
[...]
> 7-RMA the 5700.
I'd be extremely hesitant to do that unless I know it's the problem.
Also, although I just unboxed this within the past week, I ordered it
more than a month ago; it's entirely possible they might not acc
The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-28 18:31 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> IME, the problem with electrolytics was solved a decade or more ago
>> by switching motherboards to polys. The PS makers didn't and still
>> haven't done that AFAICT. GPU needing both 6 wire and 8 wire
>> dedicated powe
On 2020-12-28 at 18:26, Felix Miata wrote:
> The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-28 17:26 (UTC-0500):
>
>> Not that I've been able to detect. I obviously can't inspect the
>> inside of the PSU without in-depth surgery, but I did give the
>> capacitors etc. on the motherboard a once-over during the l
The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-28 17:26 (UTC-0500):
> Not that I've been able to detect. I obviously can't inspect the inside
> of the PSU without in-depth surgery, but I did give the capacitors etc.
> on the motherboard a once-over during the last swap-out, and didn't
> notice anything apparent
On 2020-12-28 at 16:59, Felix Miata wrote:
> 4-subscribe to one or both Grub mailing lists to ask for help.
The problem occurs with the live-boot environment, which AFAICT is using
something other than GRUB to boot. Unless I'm mistaken about that boot
method, I'm now reasonably certain that this
The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-28 16:13 (UTC-0500):
...
4-subscribe to one or both Grub mailing lists to ask for help.
5-Turn on UEFI if it's off, turn off if it's on, if you have a spare disk for
making the switch, or your live media supports both. Grub's job is considerably
different between t
On 2020-12-28 at 07:55, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-12-28 at 07:47, Anssi Saari wrote:
>
>> One thing came to my mind, do you have the appropriate aux power
>> connectors available and connected? Looks like the RX 5700 XT is
>> quite power hungry at 225 W max vs. 151 W with your old card.
>>
On Sat 26 Dec 2020 at 03:03, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > Perhaps what you have to do is to change the shape of your
> > terminal's cursor, and nano inherits it.
>
> Firstly, thanks to ALL of you who took time out on this holiday
> to answer my (pretty
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 23:56:21 +
Graham Seaman wrote:
> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line
> connection. My external line occasionally drops out, usually
> briefly ... .
There is or used to be a daemon that would re-establish a modem
connection if it saw an outgoing p
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:24:58 +0100
Sven Hartge wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
>
> > Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me:
>
> The Xfce team is uploading Xfce 4.16 at the moment. Because not all
> components can be uploaded in one go, this may cause some temporary
> problem
On 2020-12-28 at 07:47, Anssi Saari wrote:
> One thing came to my mind, do you have the appropriate aux power
> connectors available and connected? Looks like the RX 5700 XT is
> quite power hungry at 225 W max vs. 151 W with your old card.
> Different connectors too (6 pin + 8 pin instead of 2x
The Wanderer writes:
> On 2020-12-27 at 16:36, Anssi Saari wrote:
>
>> The Wanderer writes:
>>
>>> I need to get that live-boot medium ready and do those tests.
>>
>> That seems like a good thing to do.
>
> I have it ready now, but haven't shut down for another swap, in part
> because I've bee
On 28/12/2020 09:34, Tixy wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 23:56 +, Graham Seaman wrote:
>> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line connection.
>> My external line occasionally drops out, usually briefly (I'm trying to
>> get this fixed but need a workaround in the meantime
Hi Tomas
On 28/12/2020 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 11:56:21PM +, Graham Seaman wrote:
>> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line
>
> Wow. Memories fading :-)
>
> OK, my recollection on inittab is a bit dusty, and I have little
> experience wi
On 27/12/2020 23:56, Graham Seaman wrote:
I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line
connection. My external line occasionally drops out, usually briefly
(I'm trying to get this fixed but need a workaround in the meantime).
When the line goes down, I get this sequence:
Dec 2
On Sun, 2020-12-27 at 23:56 +, Graham Seaman wrote:
> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line connection.
> My external line occasionally drops out, usually briefly (I'm trying to
> get this fixed but need a workaround in the meantime). When the line
> goes down, I get t
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 11:56:21PM +, Graham Seaman wrote:
> I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line
Wow. Memories fading :-)
OK, my recollection on inittab is a bit dusty, and I have little
experience with systemd (trying to keep it that way). But I'll
try a shot at it.
On Du, 27 dec 20, 07:08:28, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-12-27 at 02:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Sb, 26 dec 20, 17:19:32, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >> With the new GPU in place, I get video output during POST and in
> >> the BIOS (yes, this machine is old enough that it doesn't have a
> >
On Du, 27 dec 20, 17:31:37, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> I do see various modules listed in the grub.cfg load_video function, and
> it's not impossible that the process of trying to use one or more of
> those includes some action which triggers this behavior. I haven't found
> a place to configure that
22 matches
Mail list logo
