Re: [PLUG] Ancient Thinkpad T61 BIOS

2020-06-20 Thread Bryan Linton
On 2020-06-20 21:19:11, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:25:57 +0900 > Bryan Linton dijo: > > >On 2020-06-20 11:35:44, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I have placed the order for the replacement SSD drive, but some time > >> before it gets here I want to update the BIOS. My

Re: [PLUG] Ancient Thinkpad T61 BIOS

2020-06-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:25:57 +0900 Bryan Linton dijo: >On 2020-06-20 11:35:44, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> I have placed the order for the replacement SSD drive, but some time >> before it gets here I want to update the BIOS. My motivation is that >> the T61 came with SATA at 1.5GB/s, and by

Re: [PLUG] Ancient Thinkpad T61 BIOS

2020-06-20 Thread Bryan Linton
On 2020-06-20 11:35:44, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have placed the order for the replacement SSD drive, but some time > before it gets here I want to update the BIOS. My motivation is that > the T61 came with SATA at 1.5GB/s, and by updating to the 'Middleton' > BIOS I can get 3.0GB/s. However,

Re: [PLUG] Thinkpad T61 needs new hard disk

2020-06-20 Thread gregm
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, June 20, 2020 12:14 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I have in my hand almost unsused, working, Intel 530 SSD - 240GB. You > > can have it for $40 today. Well now, I have wanted to increase my 120GB, 240 is fine, if it is available. gregm

Re: [PLUG] Thinkpad T61 needs new hard disk

2020-06-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 12:14 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:51:36 -0700 > Tomas Kuchta dijo: > > >One word - Sugru - available on-line as well as in some local stores. > > The glue? Will it repair a failed hard drive? > . > Of course, it will not fix hard drive, It will

Re: [PLUG] Thinkpad T61 needs new hard disk

2020-06-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 19:42:03 + gregm dijo: >‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ >On Saturday, June 20, 2020 12:14 PM, John Jason Jordan > wrote: >> > I have in my hand almost unsused, working, Intel 530 SSD - 240GB. >> > You can have it for $40 today. > >Well now, I have wanted to increase

Re: [PLUG] Thinkpad T61 needs new hard disk

2020-06-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:51:36 -0700 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >One word - Sugru - available on-line as well as in some local stores. The glue? Will it repair a failed hard drive? >How many times are you going to use that ancient T61 before you find it >unbearable? It will be used when I need to spend

Re: [PLUG] Of Wine, USB and getting them talking

2020-06-20 Thread Galen Seitz
On 6/19/20 3:26 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: Folks, I have a device that uses an STMicro device in it. The software to program the device is in Windows, when I run the software in Wine it sees all it is supposed to see but the USB part. I am trying to figure out what I need to do to get it to see the

[PLUG] Ancient Thinkpad T61 BIOS

2020-06-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have placed the order for the replacement SSD drive, but some time before it gets here I want to update the BIOS. My motivation is that the T61 came with SATA at 1.5GB/s, and by updating to the 'Middleton' BIOS I can get 3.0GB/s. However, I am pretty lost when it comes to flashing a BIOS - I've

Re: [PLUG] Thinkpad T61 needs new hard disk

2020-06-20 Thread Tomas Kuchta
One word - Sugru - available on-line as well as in some local stores. Tomas Rethorical question: How many times are you going to use that ancient T61 before you find it unbearable? I have in my hand almost unsused, working, Intel 530 SSD - 240GB. You can have it for $40 today. having

[PLUG] resolution of a wandering clock time

2020-06-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
I had a recent problem of my systems with wandering time. This was the result of using kernel version 5.7.3 on a VPS system. One of my two systems upgraded fine. The other one not so well. I use Arch Linux and the way to upgrade is to run the command # pacamn -Syu Answer yes a time or

Re: [PLUG] Thinkpad T61 needs new hard disk

2020-06-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, John Jason Jordan wrote: Thanks for the tip. Nor I need to find an adapter. Maybe a piece of cardboard? :) Nope. A plastic spacer/adapter frames for laptop SSDs. CDW: