Re: [luau] Single User Mode (was: ultra ata 100 okay?)

2003-10-02 Thread Tom_Gordon/RISE/HIDOE
i was reffering to making changes with hdparm. if you set something that may cause corruption you don't want all those other processes/levels making reads/writes in the background so you boot to single-user mode first. Tom Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[luau] Single User Mode (was: ultra ata 100 okay?)

2003-10-02 Thread Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/HIDOE
If I may ask, why in single user mode? Whats the benefit or risk? In general why would one use single user mode? Thanks. Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]@videl.ics.hawaii.edu on 10/02/2003 08:04:03 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: [luau] Linux Classes

2003-10-02 Thread TB
I tried to register for the sysadmin class today, they said that only 2 people had registered & took my name & phone #. Anyone who is interested should call soon, before they pull the plug. TDB - Original Message - From: Michael_Bishop/FARRINCS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, October 1

Re: [luau] ultra ata 100 okay?

2003-10-02 Thread Eric Hattemer
I bought a WD 250GB (230Gib) drive last week and it works fine in RH9. It comes with a promise card. Windows cannot read the drive on the nvidia controller, so I had to use the promise card. The only issue is unless your bios is pretty hardcore, it will boot as hde or higher. I don't remembe

Re: [luau] ultra ata 100 okay?

2003-10-02 Thread tom_gordon
knowing the make & model of your current controller will be plenty enough to answer that question. that can be found out by knowing the make & model of the motherboard, if it is integrated. and that can be found out by writing down the numbers on the boot init /mem test screen and googling it

RE: [luau] ultra ata 100 okay?

2003-10-02 Thread Jaymes Schooler
It does work with a Promise PCI Controller I don't know about the rest. We use the WD 200GB in our security system DVR's with no problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Warren Togami Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [luau] ultra ata 100 okay?

2003-10-02 Thread Warren Togami
Chances are it will work. Is the brand of the special PCI controller Promise? On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 20:01, TB wrote: > I'm trying to figure out if this western digital 175GB > 7200rpm ultra ata/100 hard drive will work in my linux > system. > > I went to redhat and looked for their HCLs, since I