Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread David Christensen
On 05/02/2017 06:02 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? I actually have been using an IDE-SATA converter on these systems

Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > Your SATA disks lasted 7-8 years? That's a reasonable lifetime > for spinning disks. Replace them with more SATA disks, either > spinning or SSD. Thanks for responding. I failed to mention that those SATA disks were SSD disks so it probably makes more sense to just buy some r

Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:02:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis > that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a > bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? > > I actually have been using an IDE-SATA conve

Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread Martin McCormick
writes: > Does such an animal exist? I mean in the direction you are thinking > of (I know the "other" direction exists). That's what bothers me, too. I know that the picture I have in my head is a board with an IDE connector on one side and a usb port on the other where one installs the thumb dr

Re: IDE to USB Converters

2017-05-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 08:02:32AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > If one buys an IDE to USB converter for an older chassis > that currently can only boot from the IDE interface, will a > bootable usb thumb drive work with such a setup? Does su

Re: IDE lost interrupt followed by lock-up

2010-08-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 01 August 2010 15:32:56 Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I've had sporadic problems with errors such as the following: > > Aug 2 05:09:10 victoria kernel: [616687.192331] ata1: lost interrupt > (Status 0x50) > Aug 2 05:09:10 victoria kernel: [616687.192467] ata1.00: exception > Emask 0x0 SAct

Re: IDE lost interrupt followed by lock-up

2010-08-01 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 8/1/2010 6:32 PM, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I've had sporadic problems with errors such as the following: This problem appears related to the pc being in a cool environment (e.g. 10 degrees Celsius), and has occurred almost daily for a while then not occurring for nearly a week. Any suggestions

Re: IDE lost interrupt followed by lock-up

2010-08-01 Thread Gerald
Arthur, try testing your memory with memtest, I have had similar problems and bad memory was the problem. Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201008

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduard Bloch writes: > I think you have some third-party IDE controller on the mainboard > (with a Marvell chip) which has a faulty driver. The problem is not > uncommon, i.e. if the the driver author only tested with "even" block > sizes like 512 a

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Merciadri Luca [Sun, Dec 13 2009, 07:48:59PM]: > pata_marvell4256 0 I think you have some third-party IDE controller on the mainboard (with a Marvell chip) which has a faulty driver. The problem is not uncommon, i.e. if the the driver author only tested with "even" block

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kubicek writes: > Reboot and send us outputs of these, I'd better see it all: > > cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet > cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3320620AS

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 05:41 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Then I suggest testing a closed-source alternative similar to what you may know from Windows experience: Nero Linux 4, http://www.nerolinux.de/. This way you can exclude kernel issues as potential problem. I do not often use Windows, but I wanted to

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduard Bloch writes: > #include Funny. I really enjoyed it. :-) > Relax. No problem. I am relax (at least appearing like). > Then I suggest testing a closed-source alternative similar to > what you may know from Windows experience: Nero Linux 4, >

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 03:58 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Nelson writes: Can the drive /read/ CDs and DVDs in Windows? In Linux? If not, certainly try the next suggestion. Try fiddling with the cables to the drive. Replug them. Move the data cable a

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Merciadri Luca [Sun, Dec 13 2009, 03:58:37PM]: > I thought that I had specified it before, but, according to your > message, I did not explain this in an explicit way. > > Under Windows (XP), I am able to read, and write, on any CD or DVD > medium, whatever the writer. I am thus fully

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Nelson writes: > Can the drive /read/ CDs and DVDs in Windows? In Linux? If not, > certainly try the next suggestion. > > Try fiddling with the cables to the drive. Replug them. Move the data > cable around in the computer case. I thought

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-12 08:54:35, Merciadri Luca wrote: ... > It looks like a hardware error, as stated before by the log, but why? > I am sure this is linked with the fact that it is done through IDE, > but Windows does not complain about this. Can the drive /read/ CDs and DVDs in Windows? In Linux? If no

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From Matt Harrison on Sat Dec 12: > The other CD-DVD writer works like a charm, but this one does not, > whatever the interface. I had mainly tried with GNOME's built-in's > burning tool, but it explains me that I should try burning the CD/DVD > at

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-04 17:19:37, schrieb Matt Miller: > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > USB Mass Storage support registered. > usb-storage: device found at 2 > usb-storage: waiting for device to sett

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
> > problems being caused by not connecting things in the right order > > 1. Adapter - HD > > 2. Power - HD > > 3. Adapter - USB/Computer > > > > Disconnect in reverse. Yes, this was apparently part of my problem. I do need to connect things in the order you say above or the device is not recogni

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 09:57 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 01:34 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > > > If I reboot my computer with the device already plugged in then the > > > > device is not recognized until I unplug it and plug it back in. > > > > > > Since the kernel will see

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 01:34 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > > If I reboot my computer with the device already plugged in then the > > > device is not recognized until I unplug it and plug it back in. > > > > Since the kernel will see it as a USB drive, you probably don't have > > to reboot. > > Y

Re: IDE to USB Adapter SOLVED?

2007-04-04 Thread Matt Miller
> > If I reboot my computer with the device already plugged in then the > > device is not recognized until I unplug it and plug it back in. > > Since the kernel will see it as a USB drive, you probably don't have > to reboot. Yeah, everything works if I first turn the device completely on, and

Re: IDE to USB Adapter SOLVED?

2007-04-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:32:18PM +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > My new Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is not being recognized > > under etch. > > Okay, it's working fine now. Apparently I wasn't attaching things in > the right order. I needed to first power up the device, and then plug the

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-04 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/4/07, Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My new Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is not being recognized under > > etch > > Check the output of dmesg for any messages about usb-storage. Thanks for the idea. I powered up the device and plugged it all in, and then rebooted my machi

Re: IDE to USB Adapter SOLVED?

2007-04-04 Thread Matt Miller
> My new Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is not being recognized > under etch. Okay, it's working fine now. Apparently I wasn't attaching things in the right order. I needed to first power up the device, and then plug the USB cable into my computer. If I reboot my computer with the device al

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-04 Thread Matt Miller
> > My new Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is not being recognized under > > etch > > Check the output of dmesg for any messages about usb-storage. Thanks for the idea. I powered up the device and plugged it all in, and then rebooted my machine. Following is the output of "dmesg |grep -i usb"

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-04 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/4/07, Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My new Vantec SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter is not being recognized under etch. Or, maybe it is being recognized, and I'm just not seeing it. Where would I look on my system for such a device? This device plugs into my USB port, and on the other

Re: RE: ide-floppy in etch

2007-01-21 Thread Peter Easthope
Kevin, kr> On my system: /lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.ko Thanks. I'll install the 2.6.18 kernel and check for ide-floppy.ko. ... Peter -- Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

RE: ide-floppy in etch

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> -Original Message- > From: Easthope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:31 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: ide-floppy in etch > > Users of Debian and ide-floppy, > > In Etch, is ide-floppy available as a loadable module? > If so, where is it to

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-30 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Sunday 29 January 2006 9:24 pm, Stan Banash wrote: > Guys, > > This where I am to date with the driver. I compiled the hpt302.ko module > and transferred it to a diskette. When the installation process failed to > find the hard disk partition, I did the Alt-F2. I mounted the 3.5 inch > drive a

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
0854.html A > > Anyone have any suggestions on where to go from here? > > Thanks, > Stan > > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:45 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subj

RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-29 Thread Stan Banash
: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init Anyone have any suggestions on where to go from here? Thanks, Stan -Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:45 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IDE PCI

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-28 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Stan Banash wrote: Thanks for the info it is much appreciated. Dave please send the link, I would like to review the info. Although, my situation is not exactly the same as yours. In my case the Optiplex bios disables the IDE controller on the motherboard when a second one (the Rocket 133) is ad

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
lot here and hopefully > others are too. > > FYI: Dave, I added your response to the chain here so that the record is > complete. > > Thanks, > Stan > > -Original Message- > From: Dave Witbrodt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:32 PM

RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-28 Thread Jon Miller
Stan, What I would do is the following: As you've stated run the primary IDE on the 20GB drive and remove the secondary drive. Compile the kernel (2.6) with the correct driver. When completed, add the 250G drive back and try to access that drive. I didn't have the same problem but a similar pro

RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Banash
fully others are too. FYI: Dave, I added your response to the chain here so that the record is complete. Thanks, Stan -Original Message- From: Dave Witbrodt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:32 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice N

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Dave Witbrodt
However, I would still like to know how to get the driver into the debian installer image. It seems that there should be a way for the installer to deal with this situation. Like maybe identifying hardware for which no driver is available in the install and asking the user to provide it during

RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Stan Banash wrote: > That is the path I am currently on. So far I have moved the primary drive > (20 GB) over to the IDE controller (Intel 82371 PIIX4 chipset) on the > motherboard. The 250 GB drive is set as the secondary on the Rocket 133 > IDE > controller. I am getting ready to install the 2.

RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Banash
Justin, Thanks for the assist. I'll try those options this weekend and let the list know the results. Stan -Original Message- From: Justin Guerin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:58 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Neede

RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Banash
hts? Stan -Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:40 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:49:51 -0800 "Stan Banash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 27 January 2006 14:32, Stan Banash wrote: > All, > > I am currently trying to build out a new Debian system > and am having some issues with getting the IDE PCI > card drivers installed. I'm relatively new at setting > up Debian and have been working this issue for several > days now. T

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
see if the HPT302.ko driver was included - it is > not. > > Thanks, > Stan > > -Original Message- > From: Matt Zagrabelny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 2:21 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Nee

RE: RE: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Banash
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 2:21 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:32 -0800, Stan Banash wrote: > All, > > I am currently trying to build out a new Debian system > and am having some issues

Re: IDE PCI Advice Needed

2006-01-27 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:32 -0800, Stan Banash wrote: > All, > > I am currently trying to build out a new Debian system > and am having some issues with getting the IDE PCI > card drivers installed. I'm relatively new at setting > up Debian and have been working this issue for several > days now.

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-11-03 Thread James Vahn
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! > Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. I think I pressed the wrong button and sent a premature reply, maybe not. But that doesn't look good... > Self-test execution status:( 41) The

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-11-03 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > >Enabled Supported: * NOP cmd * READ BUFFER cmd * WRITE BUFFER > >cmd * Host Protected Area feature set * Look-ahead Write cache * > >Power Management feature set Security Mode feature set SMART feature > >set >

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-11-03 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Enabled Supported: * NOP cmd * READ BUFFER cmd * WRITE BUFFER > >cmd * Host Protected Area feature set * Look-ahead Write cache * > >Power Management feature set Security Mode feature set SMART feature > >set > ^ Di

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-11-02 Thread James Vahn
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: >Enabled Supported: > *NOP cmd > *READ BUFFER cmd > *WRITE BUFFER cmd > *Host Protected Area feature set > *Look-ahead >Write cache > *Power Management feature set

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-11-01 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Try turning the write-cache off: hdparm -W0 /dev/hda > > > > Tried that and didn't see any difference... It's really annoying... > > It was a stab in the dark. "hdparm /dev/hda", "hdparm -I /dev/hda". # hdparm -I /dev/hda /dev/hda: ATA device, with

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-11-01 Thread James Vahn
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > hda: task_in_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=14410238, > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 14410238 > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 14410238 > end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 14410238 Do you see a pattern? That looks like a sic

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-11-01 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, probably not. You can install smartmontools to keep an eye on it > though. I will give it a try :) > Cheap electronics just cause problems and it sounds like you are > suffering from one. :( Cheap? It wasn't that cheap :) And I didn't buy it on a sa

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-10-31 Thread James Vahn
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > JV> That's what you get when you buy things on sale... ;-) > > You mean the harddrive is dying? No, probably not. You can install smartmontools to keep an eye on it though. Cheap electronics just cause problems and it sounds like you are suffering from one. :( > I r

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-10-31 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} ide: failed opcode > >was: unknown ide0: reset: success > > What does that mean and how can I solve this problem? > That's what you get when you buy things on sale... ;-) You mean the

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-10-30 Thread James Vahn
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > ide0: reset: success > > What does that mean and how can I solve this problem? That's what you get when you buy things on sale... ;-) Try turning the write-cache off: hdparm -W0 /dev/hda --

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:37:02PM -0400, Erik Karlin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:25:06PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Quoting Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > >Roberto C. Sanchez said: > > >> > > >>I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:50, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Before you do that, what kernel version? There was a bug in one of the earlier 2.6 kernels that did that to me, and it included the /var directory so it was not recorded. Just one more

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Gregg
Also you have to consider that many of the first and some of the second generation SATA drives are simply pata drives with bridge chips. The bridge chips reduce max bandwidth. You are also not going to be able to use things like commang queueing that SATA makes avalible with these dirves. most of

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:50, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: [...] >> Before you do that, what kernel version? There was a bug in one of >> the earlier 2.6 kernels that did that to me, and it included the /var >> directory so it was not recorded. >> >> Just one more reason to ha

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:57, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: [...] And a few days ago when running Sarge on one of its partitions I got all sorts of trouble: ... kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdb3, logical block 163858 kernel: lost page write due to I/

RE: Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Piszcz, Justin
: Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come? Bruno Buys wrote: > How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? > > > frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:57, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Bruno Buys wrote: [...] >And a few days ago when running Sarge on one of its partitions I got all >sorts of trouble: >... >kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdb3, logical block 163858 >kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hdb3 >... >

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bruno Buys wrote: How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.56 MB/sec frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -T

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-25 Thread koray
Hi all, I think you look from the wrong side to the matter.SATA is a bus/protocol and the disk you use on this bus is a standart IDE disk. The advantage of this protocol is it can make "transfer rate" up to 150MB/s.But the main question is "can your sata disk read/write data up to 150MB/s?".

RE: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread J F
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Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 22:43 -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:25 -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > > > > > >>How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? > >> > >> > >>frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > >> > >>/dev/sda: > >> Timing cache

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:25 -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seco

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:25 -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? > > > frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 sec

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Bruno Buys wrote: > How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? > frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.56 MB/sec > Does anybody have a

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-05 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >I have a > stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration. The > server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion > slots. I w

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-05 Thread Alexey Lobanov
Hello all. On 05/10/05 12:12, Mariusz Kruk wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez napisał(a): > >> Does that mean that if I plug in the two cards I cannot use the four new >> channels in addition to the two onboard channels? Is there any way >> around >> that? > As far as I see in /usr/src/whatever/Docum

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-05 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Roberto C. Sanchez napisał(a): I'm not going to answer about the right controller (dont have RAID experience) but IIRC can you can only have four IDE controllers in one system (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & Quartinary) so your total will be 8 drives including the CD-ROM? Only if they are seen

Re: Keeping a closet cool (was Re: IDE controller card recommendation)

2005-10-04 Thread Josh Battles
Ron Johnson said: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:19:32 -0500 (CDT) > "Josh Battles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> TreeBoy said: >> > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote: > [snip] >> >> LOL, It added less than $10/monthly onto my bill. >> >> Suprisingly, noise isn't too bad. The cable inter

Keeping a closet cool (was Re: IDE controller card recommendation)

2005-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:19:32 -0500 (CDT) "Josh Battles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TreeBoy said: > > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote: [snip] > > LOL, It added less than $10/monthly onto my bill. > > Suprisingly, noise isn't too bad. The cable internet line comes > into my cond

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Josh Battles
TreeBoy said: > On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote: >> >> Well, I'm not actually running them in a RAID array >> >> I used the cards as regular IDE drive controller cards. I got my grubby >> little hands on a box of 40GB harddrives for free so I kept 10 of them for >> myself and

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread TreeBoy
On Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 19:39, Josh Battles wrote: > > Well, I'm not actually running them in a RAID array > > I used the cards as regular IDE drive controller cards. I got my grubby > little hands on a box of 40GB harddrives for free so I kept 10 of them for > myself and donated the rest to so

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Josh Battles
Roberto C. Sanchez said: > Quoting Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Roberto C. Sanchez said: >>> >>> I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting >>> up >>> software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have >>> experience >>> with certain Promise

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Erik Karlin
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:25:06PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Quoting Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Roberto C. Sanchez said: > >> > >>I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting > >>up > >>software RAID and this is an older server with older drives.

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roberto On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I don't recall specifically (it has been over 2 years now). I remember > that it > was a PDC202XX, and it was an on-board deal (Gigabyte motherboard). It was > quite flaky. It eventually failed and nuked the two drives connected t

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Mariusz Kruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Fred napisał(a): I'm not going to answer about the right controller (dont have RAID experience) but IIRC can you can only have four IDE controllers in one system (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & Quartinary) so your total will be 8 drives including the CD

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Roberto C. Sanchez said: I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have experience with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that ex

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church. I have a stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration. The server's case has plenty of room for drives and a nu

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Fred napisał(a): I'm not going to answer about the right controller (dont have RAID experience) but IIRC can you can only have four IDE controllers in one system (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & Quartinary) so your total will be 8 drives including the CD-ROM? Only if they are seen as IDE contr

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Fred
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church. I have a stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration. The server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion slots. I would like to get two PCI IDE co

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Josh Battles
Roberto C. Sanchez said: > > I would like to use inexpensive cards (~$15-$30) since I will be setting up > software RAID and this is an older server with older drives. I have > experience > with certain Promise cards under Linux (and I am not happy with that > experience).Personally, I am just

Re: IDE controller card recommendation

2005-10-04 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I am setting up a machine to act as an LTSP server for my church. I have a > stack of old IDE hard drives that I want to use in a RAID configuration. The > server's case has plenty of room for drives and a number of PCI expansion > slots. I would

Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-03 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 5:47 AM Subject: Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine John Fleming wrote: I'm using current Debian Stable (Sarge). I routinely use mondoarchive to

Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Fleming wrote: I'm using current Debian Stable (Sarge). I routinely use mondoarchive to make a bootable DVD of my whole system on a Dell 600SC with an IDE drive. This DVD is capable of restoring to bare metal if necessary. I've never tried it on the 600SC because I've never had to. Howe

Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, John Fleming wrote: > Now I want to use the 600SC's mondo backup DVD to restore (clone to) a Dell > PowerEdge 1850 with a perc 4eid raid 1 controller. Note that I can install > Sarge from scratch (not the mondo backup) on the 1850 with a 2.4 kernel just > fine. However,

Re: ide dma doesn't work

2005-06-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 18 June 2005 05:29 pm, Glenn English wrote: > I'm running a vanilla sarge install on a 2.8GHz P4, booting from a > SCSI disk. There's a SATA disk and an IDE. The IDE disk is hda. The > motherboard is an Intel 865. > > When writing a big file to hda, the CPU usage goes to 100% and stays

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning!

2005-05-20 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:47:46AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:33:51PM -0800, James Vahn wrote: > > Pigeon wrote: > > > James Vahn wrote: > > > > I'm using a vanilla kernel-2.6.10 and have CDR_DEVICE=ATAPI:0,0,0 > > > > defined > > > > in /etc/default/cdrecord. The K3B icon h

Re: Re: Re: ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1)

2005-05-06 Thread Christian Kasprowicz
I got it! I got mad and just tried everything else… so I rewrote my /etc/modules to: sd_mod sr_mod loop sg ide-scsi …see, it works(thought it should do so via the modules.conf, had some/all of these in different orders…)!!! Thank you all for your comments, I thought I couldn’t be th

Re: Re: ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1)

2005-05-06 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi, On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:44:29AM +0200, Christian Kasprowicz wrote: > Hi, > > > > I work with a 2.4 kernel. > > The following modules are loaded: > > Module Size Used byNot tainted > > > > sg 25180 0 > > loop8440

Re: Re: ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1)

2005-05-06 Thread Christian Kasprowicz
Hi,   I work with a 2.4 kernel… The following modules are loaded: Module  Size  Used by    Not tainted …….. sg 25180   0 loop    8440   0  (unused) sr_mod 12632   0  (unused) ide-detect   288   0  (unus

Re: ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1)

2005-05-05 Thread gerhard
Am Thursday 05 May 2005 14:36 schrieb Christian Kasprowicz: > ...I have no /dev/pg* devices :(:( - and I also get this output if I > don't add anything of the modules/loader- addons. Hello, the sg module is responsible for this device. So do you work with a 2.6.x kernel? Do you use udev or devfs?

Re: ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1)

2005-05-05 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Christian, what if you load the modules by hand (modprobe ide-scsi etc)? Any output? What does the (pseudo) directory /proc/scsi contain? On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:36:52PM +0200, Christian Kasprowicz wrote: > Hi all, > > I got the "common" problem that my CD-Writer won't work. (debian sarge

Re: ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1)

2005-05-05 Thread peter colton
On Thursday 05 May 2005 13:36, Christian Kasprowicz wrote: > ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1) hello Christian Have you tried cdrecord with the 2.6 kernel. the scsi emulation is built into the 2.6 kernel so there is no need the edit grub. All so run dpkg-reconfigure cdre

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > The thing is that, unlike SCSI, only one device can be using an > IDE bus at any one time. a common misconception ... electrically ... only one ide disk can drive the signals on the ide cable at any time similarly, even scsi

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives - tests

2004-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I agree that in general this is a bad idea, but some tests seemed to show > me that pluging the optical drives as slaves to the hd's as masters does > *not* slow them down with my specific hardware. simple speed test ... ( must write and read at the

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