SCSI harddisk: spin down?

2004-04-19 Thread Joachim Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Is there a possibility to spin down a SCSI harddisk? hdparm -Y does not work on SCSI disks. I tried noflushd - but its the same. It says, one would have to use a kernel patch to enable spin down. BTW: How "unstable" is this patch? So - are ther

Re: Using a Proxy (Squid) will slow down download speed?

2004-04-17 Thread Joachim Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Aube schrieb: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |>3) I have 2 PCs, A and B. A downloads a file. After A's download is |>completed, B downloads the same file. Will this same file downloaded |>by B be retrieved from Squid (intranet speed) or from the intern

Re: Cleanly applying 3rd party patches to a make-kpkg kernel build

2004-04-15 Thread Joachim Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Gustafson wrote: | I've been doing regular sarge kernel builds (w/ debian kernel-source | that already has debian patches applied) with 'make-kpkg', in which I | need to apply some additional 3rd party patches. My goal is to be able | to have inst

Re: kernel 2.6.4 thourh make-kpkg

2004-04-15 Thread Joachim Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 CW Harris wrote: | On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:49:02PM -0700, Umar Draz wrote: | |>hi dear members |> |> i have new in debian. but have a experience of |>FreeBSD, Redhat, Solaris. | | | Welcome. | | |> now 3 days ago i have recompile kernel 2.6.4 in |>d

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-26 Thread Joachim Förster
Hi Jacob, and all others who are interested! On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:49:16 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I am interested in knowing what you learn, even though 100% diskless > isn't my goal, I don't want squid to keep the disk spinning when no-one > is accessing the prox

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-14 Thread Joachim Förster
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:49:16 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joachim Förster wrote: > > >Hi! > > >On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:47:04 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Joachim Förster
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:33:16 +0200 "Stefan Waidele jun." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joachim Förster wrote: > > [...] > > Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty > > disk cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)? >

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Joachim Förster
Hi! On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:47:04 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Allison said: > > Jacob Anawalt wrote: > >> Joachim Förster said: > >> > >>>Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Joachim Förster
Hi! On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:30:29 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > Tom Allison said: > > > >>Jacob Anawalt wrote: > >> > >>>Joachim Förster said: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Doe

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Joachim Förster
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:54:01 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joachim Förster said: > > Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk > > cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)? > > I don't

how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-10 Thread Joachim Förster
Hi! Are there any "special" Debian distribution configs oder methods to install or run a system in a way, where it boots from the harddisk and then changes to a ramdisk/tmpfs in order to keep the harddisk spun down? I am asking because a got the following "problem": Some weeks ago I took an ol