xbox dev # ls -1 hda* hda hda1 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 hda14 hda15 hda16 hda17 hda18 hda19 hda2 hda20 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda50 hda51 hda52 hda53 hda54 hda55 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9
thats what I got and i have a 10gig... if someone has an 8gig to compare... Vic Ben Dash wrote: >Victor, > >I was thinking about using >8gig space for swap so I >could try suspend2 to put my xBox into hybernate >sleep. Do you know if the >8gig space has a dev name, >i.e. hdaxx? > >In order to get the machine to recover from hybernate >I need to pass a device as a boot option to the kernel >that tells it where the swap file is. I don't believe >I can use a fatx swap for that. > >If I can get it to hybernate than the wife acceptance >factor goes way up since it would, hopefully, boot in >a lot less time than it takes now. > >Please let me know > >Ben > >--- Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I tried that... I originally put the swap on my file >>server and didn't >>use the harddrive once it booted into linux. The >>NFS swap was >>horrifically slow. I do not recommend it, however >>if your harddrive has >>a 10gig instead of an 8gig, you could use the extra >>2 gigs for swap >>(which the xbox doesn't use). If that still isn't >>an option, you could >>use a fatx file for swap like Ben mentioned (which I >>have never done). >>Yet still you could upgrade to 128 megs of ram and >>try without swap >>entirely. but having 64mb of ram and NFS swap is a >>slow solution. >> >>Vic >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash >>> >>> >>wrote: >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the hard >>>>drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file >>>> >>>> >>on >> >> >>>>hda50. The swap file doesn't effect the native >>>> >>>> >>xBox >> >> >>>>functions. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>If I could use NFS for both root and swap (perhaps >>> >>> >>with the help of >> >> >>>additional installed RAM) then I could shut down >>> >>> >>the drive, gaining a >> >> >>>50-75% reduction in ambient noise. The noise from >>> >>> >>the XBox isn't a >> >> >>>problem when playing games since they tend to be >>> >>> >>loud anyway, but it's >> >> >>>a real distraction when watching a relatively quiet >>> >>> >>recording. >> >> >>>I figure having a slow swap would make navigating >>> >>> >>the menus painful and >> >> >>>would delay the start of the playback, but once I'm >>> >>> >>actually watching >> >> >>>TV I wouldn't expect to have a lot of paging going >>> >>> >>on. >> >> >>>I was hoping someone on here would have already >>> >>> >>tried it and could tell >> >> >>>me that it definitely works or definitely doesn't >>> >>> >>work so I don't spend >> >> >>>a lot of (potentially wasted) time reinventing the >>> >>> >>wheel. >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>mythtv-users mailing list >>>mythtv-users@mythtv.org >>> >>> >>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>-- >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>mythtv-users mailing list >>mythtv-users@mythtv.org >> >> >> >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > >__________________________________ >Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! >http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs >_______________________________________________ >mythtv-users mailing list >mythtv-users@mythtv.org >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > -- _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users