Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with hdparm and SATA-controller
from what I recall, hdparm works perfectly for PATA drives, but not so much for SATA. Something about PATA drives looking like IDE drives and SATA drives looking like SCSI drives (to the kernel). notice /dev/sda a pata would be /dev/hda I think you're rather limited in what you can control in the sata side of things. It's mainly in the driver, and if the driver isn't doing it to the best of it's abilities, you're not likely to change it. But.. I hope someone can tell me I'm wrong, because I have an SATA drive, too :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to detect the throughput in the lan?
Quoting Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't you recommend some tools? I've always liked ntop. It provides way more than you probably want, but it provides pretty graphs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with hdparm and SATA-controller
Hi,
I want to optimize the sound output of my shiny new sata disc, but I
have some problems to set hdparm options. My options look like this:
# SATA Disk
sda_args=-d1 -c1 -u1 -A1 -S6 -M128 -B1
I don't know, if I really want it to spin down, since my system is
running on it. But that's not the real problem. I think I have a problem
with my sata driver, since the output of hdparm looks like this:
hive linux # hdparm /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
IO_support= 0 (default 16-bit)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 30394/255/63, sectors = 488281250, start = 0
hive linux # hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Model=SAMSUNG SP2504C , FwRev=VT100-52,
SerialNo= S0WRJ1PP510578
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7
* signifies the current active mode
This was AFTER starting hdparm with the options given above. I also have
these error messages after starting hdparm:
* Running hdparm on /dev/sda ...
HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument
HDIO_SET_UNMASKINTR failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error
This the output of lspci:
hive linux # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device
0421 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit
Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363
AHCI Controller (rev 03)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363
AHCI Controller (rev 03)
05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev c0)
(Motherboard is an ASUS P5K)
What is the correct driver for my SATA devices? And what is wrong with
the hdparm output?
Thanks for any help and hints,
Marc
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[gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery
There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a copy of the partition table? I know that this hard this has 3 partitions hda1(jfs) hd2(swap) and had3 (jfs) any help will be aprecciatted. -- Pepone
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery
On Donnerstag, 15. November 2007, pepone.onrez wrote: There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a copy of the partition table? testdisk can do it gpart can do it maybe parted can do it too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery
Quoting pepone.onrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a copy of the partition table? if you can recreate the partition table EXACTLY as it looked, then you might be able to run some type of recovery util like e2fsck or xfs_repair, or whatever jfs's counterpart is on the other partitions and get them back. But.. without access to a spare harddrive, you better have backups, because if you get it wrong, you could totally mess up what you have. for example: my laptop drive I know has three partitions. A boot, a swap and everything else. I always make my /boot 100 megs. so in fdisk I'd make it a new partition with +100M as the size. My swap I normally make it about 2x the memory for systems with less than a gig of ram, and 1x the memory for systems with 1g of ram. I happen to have 2gigs, so it's size would be +2048M. Next, I'd make the last partition (or 3rd), whatever is left over. Then I would have recreated my partition table had I blown it away accidentally. Then I could run some type of fs repair utility on what was giving me errors. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 15. November 2007, pepone.onrez wrote: There is any way for recover the partition table of a hardisk with out a copy of the partition table? testdisk can do it gpart can do it maybe parted can do it too. I haven't used gpart, or parted for this job, but have successfully used testdisk. I think I ran it either from a CD, or a floppy and it was able to find the last few partition tables that I had set up on that disk. I chose the desired partition table (it was the most recent) and off it went from there. I have to say I was well impressed with it. Must have application. :) Good luck. (PS. [OT slightly] Don't mean to start another flamewar about the pro's con's, but would this sort of recovery work the same with a LVM? I would assume that it would, because the LVM is sort of a superstructure, but I do not know how the conventional partition table relates to the LV tables.) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 14:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I know this is EXTREMELY off topic but I don't know of another
better list to ask on. I'm hoping maybe there is a Linux command line
method for doing this. Thanks in advance.
I have a data file with data that changes infrequently. The file
lists only the day the data changes. There are only 144 lines
representing 23 years of data. There are three values for the data -
1, 0 -1. The file looks like this:
09/27/74, 1
07/11/75, -1
08/01/75, 1
03/12/76, -1
04/02/76, 1
05/07/76, -1
06/04/76, 1
I need to turn this data into a file with the same format but one
that has data for every date, something like this:
09/28/74, 1
09/29/74, 1
09/30/74, 1
...
...
...
07/09/75, 1
07/10/75, 1
07/11/75, -1
and so on...
Would anyone proficient in Linux command line know how to do that?
Or might there be some app in portage that could do this as part of
it's functionality?
You're probably not going to find something so specific off the
shelf (although if I'm wrong, someone will correct me). Likely you'll
have to do some kind of scripting (either in bash or whatever). With
that in mind, it would be relatively easy to do in python:
Read the file and put data into a dict:
date_dict[datetime.date(1975, 04, 12)] = -1
...
Then write a loop
start_date = datetime.date(1972, 3, 1)
end_date = datetime.date(2007, .
one_day = datetime.datedelta(days=1)
default_value = 1
mydate = start_date
while mydate = end_date:
... value = date_dict.get(mydate, default_value)
... outfile.write('%s %s\n' % (mydate, value))
... mydate = mydate + one_day
That's the general idea, though the above code is incomplete and
untested.
BTW, 2-digit year is a bad idea (unless it's truly 74 AD ;-).
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[gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data
Hi, I know this is EXTREMELY off topic but I don't know of another better list to ask on. I'm hoping maybe there is a Linux command line method for doing this. Thanks in advance. I have a data file with data that changes infrequently. The file lists only the day the data changes. There are only 144 lines representing 23 years of data. There are three values for the data - 1, 0 -1. The file looks like this: 09/27/74, 1 07/11/75, -1 08/01/75, 1 03/12/76, -1 04/02/76, 1 05/07/76, -1 06/04/76, 1 I need to turn this data into a file with the same format but one that has data for every date, something like this: 09/28/74, 1 09/29/74, 1 09/30/74, 1 ... ... ... 07/09/75, 1 07/10/75, 1 07/11/75, -1 and so on... Would anyone proficient in Linux command line know how to do that? Or might there be some app in portage that could do this as part of it's functionality? Thanks in advance and sorry for the noise. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data
I'd use something like perl[1] to read (2 lines initially) and then each line of the original file, generate the intermediate lines by comparing each line to the one before... printing the new generated lines to stdout (or a specified file if desired). Cheers Mark [1], perl, php, python, awk etc ... probably a bit tricky for bash (tho there's probably someone out there who would try it...) Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I know this is EXTREMELY off topic but I don't know of another better list to ask on. I'm hoping maybe there is a Linux command line method for doing this. Thanks in advance. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation
Hi Group, I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the clipboard content is overwritten as soon as I mark text. This behaviour is not depending on the window manager/ desktop environment (I tried fvwm and kde), so it is probably some X configuration stuff. As far as I have understood, there are 2 different clipboards with one being changed as soon as you mark text (pasting at mouse-middle-click) and the other is changed by pressing Ctrl-c (pasting at Ctrl-v). Is that correct? If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the possibility to change this behaviour? Cheers, Heinz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data
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Re: [gentoo-user] Partition tale recovery
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:27:11 +, Mick wrote: (PS. [OT slightly] Don't mean to start another flamewar about the pro's con's, but would this sort of recovery work the same with a LVM? I would assume that it would, because the LVM is sort of a superstructure, but I do not know how the conventional partition table relates to the LV tables.) It will find lost LVM partitions, I don't if it can recover accidentally deleted logical volumes. -- Neil Bothwick Due to inflation, all clouds will now be lined with zinc. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] grub hell
http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/ I use this cd image and it works like a treat. Not for me. Same problem: grub can get the HDs straight. I quit. Not a great biggee; I only use XP for one proprietary program that has yet to be linux-fied. I'll just tell the BIOS to boot from that drive whenever I have to use it again, which is rarely. Outtahere, -mw Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] portage update problems due to sane-backends
Can anyone help me with an update issue? I do not seem to be able to update a lot of my system, because sane-backends fails to compile. This is the error I get make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4/work/sane-backends-1.0.18/backend' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-hpaio.la', needed by `all'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4/work/sane-backends-1.0.18/backend' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 * * ERROR: media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4 failed. * Call stack: *ebuild.sh, line 1701: Called dyn_compile *ebuild.sh, line 1039: Called qa_call 'src_compile' *ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile * sane-backends-1.0.18-r4.ebuild, line 109: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4/temp/build.log'. * * Messages for package media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4: * * ERROR: media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4 failed. * Call stack: *ebuild.sh, line 1701: Called dyn_compile *ebuild.sh, line 1039: Called qa_call 'src_compile' *ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile * sane-backends-1.0.18-r4.ebuild, line 109: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r4/temp/build.log'. Can anyone suggest a workaround? Thanks Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the clipboard content is overwritten as soon as I mark text. This behaviour is not depending on the window manager/ desktop environment (I tried fvwm and kde), so it is probably some X configuration stuff. As far as I have understood, there are 2 different clipboards with one being changed as soon as you mark text (pasting at mouse-middle-click) and the other is changed by pressing Ctrl-c (pasting at Ctrl-v). Is that correct? If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the possibility to change this behaviour? Klipper (the KDE clipbboard) has a setting to keep the content of clipboard and current selection separately. I thought this could only be used to force the behaviour you experence, but maybe it works the other way around for you and lets you disable it. Wonko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VERY OFF TOPIC - change sparse data to daily data
071115 Mark Knecht wrote: I have a data file with data that changes infrequently. The file lists only the day the data changes. There are only 144 lines representing 23 years of data. There are three values for the data - 1, 0 -1. The file looks like this: 09/27/74, 1 07/11/75, -1 08/01/75, 1 03/12/76, -1 04/02/76, 1 05/07/76, -1 06/04/76, 1 I need to turn this data into a file with the same format but one that has data for every date, something like this: 09/28/74, 1 09/29/74, 1 09/30/74, 1 I would do it with Vim, mainly 's' 'q'. It would probably help slightly if you used international date format: '1974-09-27' etc. HTH -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the possibility to change this behaviour? Very interesting, my Gentoo machine is currently X-less so I can't test it, but I'd like such behaviour on my Debian machine, where clipboards are separate, but I'd like them to be common. Preferably also common with GNU screen clipboard (/tmp/screen-exchange). Any ideas how to do it? -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation
On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the possibility to change this behaviour? I use Klipper and have it configured so that both clipboard buffers are synced. Normally this works fine. However some GTK based programs *always* puts whatever is highlighted onto the clipboard - it doesn't matter *how* it was highlighted - ie whether I specifically mouse dragged, or shift cursor, or even when the program itself highlighted it (eg usually when you TAB within a dialog the text in a text input is automatically highlighted). It is this last behaviour which is the most annoying - if I didn't specifically highlighted then I don't want it on the clipboard, but gtk based programs thinks otherwise. Another reason why I hate gtk and gnome :) -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation
This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the clipboard. Also, middle-click (or whatever is mapped to your 3rd mouse button) is paste. This is just how X works. Getting around this is a hack in itself. Next time you are on an Solaris or AIX workstation - know that cut/paste is the same (as X intended): highlight and 3rd button click. :) On Nov 15, 2007 8:28 PM, Crayon Shin Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the possibility to change this behaviour? I use Klipper and have it configured so that both clipboard buffers are synced. Normally this works fine. However some GTK based programs *always* puts whatever is highlighted onto the clipboard - it doesn't matter *how* it was highlighted - ie whether I specifically mouse dragged, or shift cursor, or even when the program itself highlighted it (eg usually when you TAB within a dialog the text in a text input is automatically highlighted). It is this last behaviour which is the most annoying - if I didn't specifically highlighted then I don't want it on the clipboard, but gtk based programs thinks otherwise. Another reason why I hate gtk and gnome :) -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation
Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the clipboard. Also, middle-click (or whatever is mapped to your 3rd mouse button) is paste. This is just how X works. Getting around this is a hack in itself. No, read this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html -- Miernik http://miernik.name/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
