Re: Adaptec 1205SA
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Nick Holland wrote: Chris Zakelj wrote: Szechuan Death wrote: Speaking of which: Which driver supports the Adaptec 1205SA? Anybody? Bueller? Manpages are not forthcoming. Don't know if any of them do, especially now that Adaptec SCSI has been removed from the kernel. However, if any dev wants it, I just removed one from my gaming machine, and I'd be more than happy to send it their way. actually, only the Adaptec RAID controllers using the aac(4) driver were removed. Most of the "simple" SCSI drivers continue on... Were I a betting man, I'd bet the 1205SA is supported by the pciide(4) driver. It appears to be a very basic SATA controller. If it's not supported by pciide, it probably could be. Probably isn't even an Adaptec chip on it. The Adaptec 1205SA sports a SiL3112 chip and is supported by the pciide(4) driver. I plugged one of those into my 3.5 box along with 2x250gb drives, and it (and they) Just Worked(tm). As noted above, it is a very basic controller, and performance isn't spectacular, but it is cheap (maybe not the Adaptec branded one, though; I got mine for free) and works under most operating systems with little or no hassles (notably, Windows proved to be the most troublesome to get it working under). I just bought another, similar controller, a 4-port one based on the 3114 version of the chip. I don't expect any problems with that either. :) - Christer
Re: FileSystem Corruptions? Very important Files at stake.
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Justin Wong wrote: Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. After searches on the internet turned up nothing, I found your site about your love for OpenBSD. My problem is that when I boot, I get an error /dev/rwd0a BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE. Then, on the same 13 gig drive, the error," /dev/rwd0a UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY RUN fsck_ffs MANUALLY" . Later on, I also get an error from my other HardDRive which is a 200 gig Seagate. This drive is also getting many errors. I did not realise it, but I guess I had formatted it in NTFS. This HardDrive contains many files of which are very important (3 years worth of files and a few thousand family photos). If the contents of the drive are really, really important to you and you are willing to spend (lots of) money to retrieve it, send it to Ibas. Don't do anything more, just shut down the computer, disconnect the drives, and give them a call, to them as best you can what has happened, and they will give you directions as to what to do. www.ibas.com is the place to visit now, or call their 24/7 international emergency hotline at +47 62 81 01 00. Oh, and always keep a backup. Cheers, Christer
Re: stubid litte "speaker beep" that doesn't stop
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Didier Wiroth wrote: Hello, I've installed 3.7 on a new pc. The motherboard has an onboard very small speaker. As soon as 3.7 boots the speaker starts to beep and doesn't stop anymore. How can I stop this annoying beep. I tried: to disable sysbeep (with config), a bios update but these didn't help. What else can I try? On one computer I put together earlier this year, I found the same thing, but the beeper could be disabled in the bios, leaving it silent no matter what the OS wanted. I can't remember the brand, and you didn't state yours, but it's worth a shot anyway. - Christer
Re: want to get a zaurus - anybody in japan willing to help?
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Jeffrey Lim wrote: just to say thanks, guys, for all the replies, but as a note, I stay in Singapore, not in Europe, so Wim's kinda out-of-the-way (i'm not in Europe). Appreciate ur help though!! Short of me going down to japan personally to buy the thing (and then ship myself back), is there any other (affordable and) better way of getting the thing? eBay? http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Sharp-Zaurus-SL-C3100-PDA-Converted-to-English_W0QQitemZ5808159033QQcategoryZ96920QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Here's a search: http://search.ebay.com/zaurus-SL-C3100_W0QQflocZ1QQfromZR40QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsaslcZ2QQsatitleZzaurusQ20SLQ2dC3100QQsbrexpZWD2SQQssPageNameZWD2S Good luck & happy bidding :) - Christer
Re: Alpha CS20 wanted
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Kevin wrote: (snip) This is one of those places where given its importance to the community, some more of us can--and really should--step up immediately and help cover the small cost. We're talking about a lousy $500 or so in pledges that we're short, so covering this should be trivial with a few (even $10 or $20) donations. I can offer a US$40 donation via paypal... Just let me know when you need me to transfer the money, and where to. - Christer
Re: "I am beginning to think"
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: [mac mini+ms office:mac] I have been thinking about getting a Mac. I hadn't considered a mini, but that is an intriguing idea. What does the above hardware and software cost in the US? 1.25GHz/40GB/256MB ram Mac mini from $499. 1.42GHz/80GB/256MB ram Mac mini from $599. MS Office:mac 2004 $399.95. All prices from Apple's website and current as of right now. Cheers, -Christer
