I had one batch of drives that needed a firmware update. The drives
were all in USB cases, but to apply the firmware updates using the
vendor's utility I had to remove each drive from the USB case and
install in an old PC.
Yes, that sounds familiar :-)
I did manage to update a couple of
The output looks good to me.
You should be able to run the long test, even through the USB interface.
Good point about the firmware update, although a quick look on the web
doesn't indicate an update is available. Many disk drives firmware can
be updated from Linux with the hdparm tool (hdpar
smartctl is your friend when it comes to evaluating a disk drive health.
Keep in mind, though, that SMART is not fool proof. Some disk damage may
not be caught by SMART, but if SMART says your drive is damaged, then it
probably is.
First, check the overall health status ((replace /dev/sda with
On 11/27/2016 11:33 PM, Denis Leroy wrote:
On 11/27/2016 11:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 08:48:42PM +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
Problem still occurs on a fresh install, and /etc/gdm/custom.conf
doesn't actually exist. I guess only lightdm is installed by the
Live d
On 11/27/2016 11:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 08:48:42PM +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
Problem still occurs on a fresh install, and /etc/gdm/custom.conf
doesn't actually exist. I guess only lightdm is installed by the
Live distro. Will try on other system.
In this
On 11/27/2016 07:50 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 07:24:49PM +0100, Denis Leroy wrote:
Both systems are very different. One is a Lenovo, built-in Intel
graphics support and XFCE, the other is a Dell with a AMD Firepro
M5100 graphics card running Cinnamon. Yet the result is
Hi List,
So I updated both my Fedora laptops from 24 to 25, resulting in both
booting into black screens with no login dialogs and no way of going
into a console or looking at logs.
Both systems are very different. One is a Lenovo, built-in Intel
graphics support and XFCE, the other is a D
On 09/13/2010 12:12 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> I have a new F12 system that is experiencing *agonizingly slow* SATA HDD
> performance, and I
> can't figure out why. No errors messages at all, just *really slow*.
Sounds like a bad disk to me. Run some diagnostic with smartctl (from
the smar
On 09/10/2010 10:54 PM, JB wrote:
> Antonio M gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> It was a long time since my last burn.tonight I wanted to burn a
>> CD-RW but I could not as I could not erase it.
>> I was using K3B or Brasero, and NautilusI could burn a standard CD
>> Running a fully updated F13
Hi list,
Woke up this morning to find my printer no longer working. Looks like a
recent F-13 testing update broke my setup, even though printing has been
very very stable for me as a rule these past couple of years.
I'm seeing
/var/log/messages:Sep 8 08:26:54 jupiler hpcups[2108]:
prnt/hpcup
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