Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-28 Thread meino . cramer
walt [10-05-29 03:21]: > On 05/27/2010 06:54 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > >ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 > > I know nothing about the new large-sector disks, but the line above > makes > me worried that the disk driver doesn't know any more than I do :) > > Anyone know if that is the e

[gentoo-user] [OT] I could use some OT coaching... retrieve laptop os remotely

2010-05-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Can anyone offer a suggestion as to how I can backup a disk on a remote laptop running windows vista. I've utterly destroyed the laptops screen, even plugging it into an external monitor... fails. vnc access fails as well. However due to having installed an sshd daemon with cygwin, I can ssh to

[gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-28 Thread walt
On 05/27/2010 06:54 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 I know nothing about the new large-sector disks, but the line above makes me worried that the disk driver doesn't know any more than I do :) Anyone know if that is the expected response from the disk driver?

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting up gpg-agent (and ssh-agent?)

2010-05-28 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 22:59:45 you wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 20:05:12 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 17:02:55 Mick wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have asked a similar question on this M/L in the past. There seems > > > to be different ways of making sure that gpg-agent

Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed > to help. > > The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but > some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. > > Digikam loads just fine. It r

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-28 Thread Mick
On 28 May 2010 12:27, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 28 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:29:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100, Mick wrote: >> > > Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: >> > > >> > > Do I need to emerge hdparm for such

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need hdparm for serial ATA drive?

2010-05-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 28 Mai 2010, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:29:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:22:11 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > Newer machines invariably have SATA drives: > > > > > > Do I need to emerge hdparm for such a drive? > > > > % whatis hdparm > > hdparm