Re: External USB hard drive question

2006-06-09 Thread debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to already have a partition table that contains a single partition, /dev/sda1. As you are talking about UFS and all those other file systems, my guess is that this is a Mac OS X volume or something - wh

Re: External USB hard drive question

2006-06-09 Thread Arafangion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Could anybody offer any advice on the best route to get the drive > mounted ext3 on Sarge? Or, if indeed, I could just use the back-up > drive formatted UFS? The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to already have a partition table th

External USB hard drive question

2006-06-09 Thread debian
Hi, all. I've recently installed Sarge on an old Pentium II machine via CD/Network as a test box to evaluate the system and am extremely impressed. I installed the Desktop environment and am using KDE 3.3 as my desktop. I've painlessly got it entered onto my LAN (sharing with OS X), got

Re: hard drive question

2002-05-10 Thread Andrey Vlassov
try this remedy test a speed of your disk hdparm -Tt /dev/hda optimize parameters for HDD hdparm -c1 -d1 -u1 -m16 -A /dev/hda and test again hdparm -Tt /dev/hda if it worked for you add a file into /etc/init.d as startup script #! /bin/sh set -e case "$1" in start) echo -n "Sett

Re: hard drive question

2002-05-10 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 10 May 2002 13:28:02 -0400 "Matthew Daubenspeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > burnt:/home/mellofone# hdparm /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > multcount= 0 (off) > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > using_dma= 0 (off) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > nowerr

Re: hard drive question

2002-05-10 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
> > Which to me shows that it is using ATA100... However: > > Don't believe that's quite the case. That is reading what the drive is > capable of. Per the hdparm man page: > > -i Display the identification info that was obtained > from the drive at boot time, if available. >

Re: hard drive question

2002-05-10 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 10 May 2002 10:54:02 -0400 "Matthew Daubenspeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using an MSI mobo with a VIA VT686B chipset that should allow > ATA100 operation. Here is the hdparm information: > > burnt:/home/mellofone# hdparm -i /dev/hda (snip) > Which to me shows that it is using AT

hard drive question

2002-05-10 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I am using an MSI mobo with a VIA VT686B chipset that should allow ATA100 operation. Here is the hdparm information: burnt:/home/mellofone# hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=ST340823A, FwRev=3.39, SerialNo=6EF0WCTQ Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } RawCHS=1

Re: Hard Drive Question....

1999-03-04 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > Greetings, > I know I've seen this addressed before, but for the life of me I can't > seems to find it, so I will ask the group. I have several machine, now > running DOS 6.2. The system BIOS doesn't support large drives, 540MB is the > max. I have several 630-1000MB drives and wish

Re: Hard Drive Question....

1999-03-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Anthony Landreneau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Greetings, > I know I've seen this addressed before, but for the life of me I can't > seems to find it, so I will ask the group. I have several machine, now > running DOS 6.2. The system BIOS doesn't support large drives, 540MB is the > max.

Hard Drive Question....

1999-03-03 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, I know I've seen this addressed before, but for the life of me I can't seems to find it, so I will ask the group. I have several machine, now running DOS 6.2. The system BIOS doesn't support large drives, 540MB is the max. I have several 630-1000MB drives and wish to use them o