On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 21:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 18:10 +, Curt wrote:
> > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000Old_age Always
> >- 7539
> > 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 034 034 000Old_age Always
> >-
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 18:10 +, Curt wrote:
> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000Old_age Always
> - 7539
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 034 034 000Old_age Always
> - 500820
500820 / 7539 = 66 so around 1 time each minute, but I'
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +, Curt wrote:
>> parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last two years
>
> And I learn too. Some minutes before I read your mail, my claim would
> have been, that it's impossible, that such a drive will last for two
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +, Curt wrote:
> I'm too embarassed to give you my load cycle count, but if I had as
> many euros as I do cycles, I'd be living in luxury down on the Côte
> d'Azur.
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On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +, Curt wrote:
> parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last two years
And I learn too. Some minutes before I read your mail, my claim would
have been, that it's impossible, that such a drive will last for two
years. On Linux Audio Users mailing list (LA
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> Don't confuse
>
> 12 Power_Cycle_Count
>
> with
>
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count
>
Well, actually, I just discovered that my Western Digital (WD15EARS)
drive suffers from the dreaded Load_Cycle_Count syndrome
(parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 12:44 +, Curt wrote:
> On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >
> > Isn't that plausible? I'm the source, I care for facts, not for claims
> > from vendors.
>
> >From your favorite company:
>
>
>
> Power Cycles. The power cycles indicator counts the
> number of times
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> Isn't that plausible? I'm the source, I care for facts, not for claims
> from vendors.
>From your favorite company:
Power Cycles. The power cycles indicator counts the
number of times a drive is powered up and down. In
a server-class deployment, in whi
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 17:56 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> Do you have reason to believe this, or a source, or are you just
> expressing your opinion, unshackled by facts and data?
>
> Quite likely not, but who said that that will be due to excessive
> spinups / spindowns?
It's the kind of breakage, the
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:56:12 +0200
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 20:33 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:54:57 +0200
> > Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 18:44 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:15:06 +0200
> > > > Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 20:33 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:54:57 +0200
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 18:44 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:15:06 +0200
> > > Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > Each time you reboot, you harm y
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm a debian newbie. Last night I've download the debian-installer beta.
> With a litle luck I got it to install the base system. Now comes the
> problem. I have 3 HDs the boot HD has Grub and XP on it. The 2nd HD has
> Debian on it. With LILO install on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (curtis) writes:
> Ok, after trying to compile the kernel now several different ways, I
> still can't boot up afterwards. That is, on boot up while it's doing
> the, what is it LILO 2.22 something like that, it gets
> started and then starts over, and over, an
on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:27:55AM -0800, Nate Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> SamBozo Debian User wrote:
> >
> > Hello to the group,
> > Recently there were comments made as to the "foolishness" of
> > rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of
> > the cli entr
William Leese wrote:
>
>
> heh, noted.. using a seagate HD here.. only a few months old, had one prob
> with it.. which had something to do with the powersaving feature i'm
> guessing. can't see any reason to reboot linux at all, with exception as
> someone already said installing a new kernel..
> From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Richard Taylor wrote:
>
>> >Nothing in opensource is going to be close to DreamWeaver of course -yet
>> >anyways.
>>
>> That depends on whether you hand write your code or let a
>> wysiwyg editor approximate it for you.
>>
>> Most pros will
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Richard Taylor wrote:
>
> >Nothing in opensource is going to be close to DreamWeaver of course -yet
> >anyways.
>
> That depends on whether you hand write your code or let a
> wysiwyg editor approximate it for you.
>
> Most pros will tell you that the only proper code is hand
> From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote:
>> mmm, i'll give it a try. Just hope someone will come along with a good
>> WYSIWYS-editor for linux (GPL-ed.. ofcourse, unlike Bluefish) some time.
>
>Give Amaya a tryout, done by the w3 folks.
Amaya's really good...
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote:
> mmm, i'll give it a try. Just hope someone will come along with a good
> WYSIWYS-editor for linux (GPL-ed.. ofcourse, unlike Bluefish) some time.
>
Give Amaya a tryout, done by the w3 folks.
Nothing in opensource is going to be close to DreamWeaver of
> if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it
> prompts for
> the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runlevel 2. that will
> effectivly
> restart all programs on the system except (i think) init, and of course
> the
> kernel.
>
> restarting programs really depends on
I have crashed my share of drives too. What I learned is that I get the
very best luck out of Western Digital. Of all the WD drives, I only killed
one - and that was purely my fault - 1500Watts of RF without benefit of
an RF ground = bad/evil/smoke producing things to computers :) Yet WD
warrented
For my (little home) servers, I always try a reboot after I installed
something regarding to the things it serves. If something goes wrong
(power failure, accicent, etc) I know that the vital parts work directly
100% after reboot.
As for my client/workstation system, I have to reboot when I need t
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:41:04 +0100, William Leese writes:
>..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe,
>but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something
>about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM
>maybe?
I
Everything in /etc/init.d is a shell script that can be used to restart a
daemon. Usage: /etc/init.d/ restart. If there's not a init.d
script, ps aux|grep to get the PID, then kill -HUP . That's
just about it: if it doesn't fit into one of these two categories, it's
not important to the machi
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote:
> ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate
> maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've
> heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes
> reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe?
IBM drives are q
William Leese wrote:
> ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe,
> but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something
> about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM
> maybe?
IBM is all i use now.. i'd buy a maxt
> back in 1995(last time that i used seagate) i had 2 conner 420MB drives
> and 1 seagate 540 (and now they are the same company *shudder*) fail
> within
> 3 months of using them because of the powersaving auto spindown. ever
> since
> i have not used that feature unless its on a laptop. and i've o
SamBozo Debian User wrote:
> I KNOW THIS is NOT the proper way to do things with Linux ...
> but how else do you know?
> Please tell me?
> I'll change my evil ways...
if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it
prompts for
the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runle
William Leese wrote:
> heh, noted.. using a seagate HD here.. only a few months old, had one prob
> with it.. which had something to do with the powersaving feature i'm
> guessing. can't see any reason to reboot linux at all, with exception as
> someone already said installing a new kernel.. but o
On Friday 16 February 2001 17:27, Nate Amsden wrote:
> try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with
> rebooting
> not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to
> move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding
> it.
>
> fucki
> try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad
> experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun
> ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move
> a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20
> hours rebuilding it.
Similar experience here at work with a Sun Sparc we had... mo
SamBozo Debian User wrote:
>
> Hello to the group,
> Recently there were comments made as to the "foolishness" of rebooting
> just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys
try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with
rebooting
not too long a
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> SamBozo Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Recently there were comments made as to the "foolishness" of rebooting
> >just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys
> >that would have accomplished this? Are there diff
SamBozo Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recently there were comments made as to the "foolishness" of rebooting
>just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys
>that would have accomplished this? Are there different ones for
>different config files? SHUP somet
Mullins, Ron hat gesagt: // Mullins, Ron wrote:
> C-A-Rubout drops me to a console, yes. Using xdm/wdm/gdm that console isn't
> logged in. This then leaves me with, "Ok, honey...now that you've killed the
> window manager, you now have to login again, then you can hit C-A-Del. (me
> gets blank sta
"Mullins, Ron" wrote:
>
> C-A-Rubout? What, pray tell, is Rubout? BTW: I use xdm, so I don't drop to a
> prompt or anything nice where I'm logged in.
>
> To Oswald: I have trusted users...but not all.
>
> To Marshal: Yes I added shutdown to a shutdown group and added users to that
> group. No jo
> Wouldn't this be possible using sudo? I'd say this is exactly meant
> to give specific users access to specific super user level commands.
> Give your wife permission to "sudo halt" or "sudo reboot" and the only
> thing she'll need to know is her own password.
>
note: you can tell sudo not to r
Quoting Mullins, Ron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> C-A-Rubout drops me to a console, yes. Using xdm/wdm/gdm that console isn't
> logged in. This then leaves me with, "Ok, honey...now that you've killed the
> window manager, you now have to login again, then you can hit C-A-Del. (me
> gets blank stare, the
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:46:58AM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote:
> Now, before I start, I'm not a newbie. I've setup Debian many times, setup a
> masq'ed network, email/ftp/DNS servers, gateways and byways :). What I
> haven't seen yet is how to reboot in X as a user. I can from the terminal
> (using
"C. Falconer" wrote:
>
> Lateral thinking solutions
>
> 1) Buy her a new machine
> 2) Buy yourself a new machine and give her your current one
> 3) Become Amish so you don't need a computer :)
>
> --
> From: Mullins, Ron[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Why is this critical? I
"Mullins, Ron" wrote:
> To Nate: I'm assuming that by GDM you mean Gnome? Yes, it's installed. Gnome
> guys should have the shutdown read shutdown.allow, huh?
>
> Please guys. How do YOU reboot, those of you who haft to. There has to be an
> easy way to let a DSU home user reboot while in transiti
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:02:14AM -0600, Mullins, Ron wrote:
> Please guys. How do YOU reboot, those of you who haft to. There has to be an
> easy way to let a DSU home user reboot while in transition. I don't want to
> hear, "I couldn't get anything done. You had the computer in Linux and I
> do
"Mullins, Ron" wrote:
> C-A-Rubout? What, pray tell, is Rubout? BTW: I use xdm, so I don't drop to a
> prompt or anything nice where I'm logged in.
I believe most of us refer to it as Backspace.
>
> To Oswald: I have trusted users...but not all.
>
> To Marshal: Yes I added shutdown to a shutdown
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 13:57:58 +, Chris Brown wrote:
> We have Debian 2.1 system here that seems to be rebooting a lot, and it
> seems to be doing it on its own. Sometimes, according to syslog it will
> reboot multiple times in a row. Unfortunately, none of the logs have any
> documented re
If you get a private reply that answers this, please post it; I've seen
the question here before without having seen the answer, and I'd like to
know too. Thanks.
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, G. Crimp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Question first, details follow for those that want them.
>
> Question: How c
Hi,
Question first, details follow for those that want them.
Question: How can I get Deb to present me with the profile selection screen
that one gets during installation of Deb 2.0, after one has partitioned,
initialized, configured the net and the base system and rebooted ? You
know,
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