RE: Beginner questions about hdparm

2005-12-07 Thread David Lockwood
No idea if this works on SATA, but there is an sdparm. http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html -- Archaic Thanks. I've been playing with that. Actually some of hdparm still works, the error messages are expected and apparently harmless. Sdparm has no benchmark option. There are kernel

RE: Beginner questions about hdparm

2005-12-06 Thread David Lockwood
alter /etc/fstab - everything else should be OK I think? Well, I could attempt to read your mind to determine what you are subconsciously worrying about, but I think I'll just say yes :) Oh, root= for your bootloader will need to refer to sdaX. See - it was worth asking! I would have

RE: Beginner questions about hdparm

2005-12-06 Thread David Lockwood
Of Ken Moffat I think this *might* be controlled by one of the SCSI transport options - there is some sort of deprecated option that conflicts with SATA, but I'm on a ppc at the moment and I can't see it. I'd noticed this deprecated option (conflicts with libata) but never bothered to

Re: bash_profile not being sourced

2005-11-10 Thread David Lockwood
Solved. I'm not sure if anybody felt the answer was too obvious - if so I apologise. But it's not an answer I came across anywhere else and shells don't work the way I thought they did. The problem was a simple error in /etc/passwd - my userid didn't have the default shell specified

RE: about the nfs-server script

2005-10-30 Thread David Lockwood
First I thought I had some bad configuration, or maybe permissions problem because I'm using package users. But several builds later, the issue persist. Got a feeling either not much people use NFS anymore, or noone really care too much about it.. --Tor Olav Don't feel

RE: Adding a second workstation

2005-10-23 Thread David Lockwood
Does she still need to use smbmount to access my /pub/songs directory, or is there some other means of addressing resources on a host when you have a Linux-to-Linux connection? I'm not talking about copying files, but opening them in-place on the server. You'll get more experienced