Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Brien Dieterle
Yeah I would send it back :-p On Nov 25, 2016 4:37 PM, "Michael" wrote: > I would love to use a *nix native file system but I want to be able to > share this between systems. Everytime the thing goes to a new line the > write error is incremented by 1. This is a new disk. It shouldn't do that! >

Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Michael
I would love to use a *nix native file system but I want to be able to share this between systems. Everytime the thing goes to a new line the write error is incremented by 1. This is a new disk. It shouldn't do that! I think I should send it back! What do you guys think? On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 6:

Re: grub + gpt (and arch, oh my)

2016-11-25 Thread Todd Cole
I have not tried with arch but there both grub2 and efigrub efi and uefi needs its own fat partition to keep os keys in and secure boot usually must be off but I have had several that would only work with secure boot on. as best I can tell bios are implemented is different ways by each company that

Re: nvidia + linux

2016-11-25 Thread Stephen Partington
Currently i Run Only 2 2 2k and 1 1080p no disconnects, no blips nothing. i even sent audio over hdmi with success. On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > How many displays do you run Stephen? Do they ever disconnect, or go away > like a laptop being detached between home and

Re: nvidia + linux

2016-11-25 Thread Michael Butash
How many displays do you run Stephen?  Do they ever disconnect, or go away like a laptop being detached between home and work? Do you use kde display to manage them, nvidia-settings, some combination of both?  Do you have it write an xorg.conf? Quick test if you

Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Brien Dieterle
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65349/how-to-interpret-badblocks-output Sounds like it had a lot of writing errors. Thing is I'll not sure how to deal with it while using NTFS http://linux.bigresource.com/General-NTFS-marking-sectors-bad--aLwrEyk32.html If you use ext3 or ext4 you can c

grub + gpt (and arch, oh my)

2016-11-25 Thread Michael Butash
So taking to heart that perhaps I have simply outgrown ubuntu and its ilk, I decide to explore arch again. So far, it's been painful. In "the good old days" of everything being 512byte sectors, circular geometry, and new-fangled ssd with this ^2 thing, I adapted my installs to align things wi

Re: nvidia + linux

2016-11-25 Thread Stephen Partington
I have had no issues running Kbuntu and the 1070 with the binary drivers from repo. On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > So far I am NOT impressed with my choice to go with nvidia, as the > graphics change from amd has caused everything to become entirely unstable > again. >

nvidia + linux

2016-11-25 Thread Michael Butash
So far I am NOT impressed with my choice to go with nvidia, as the graphics change from amd has caused everything to become entirely unstable again. KDE neon is a basketcase, again with these nvidia binary drivers. Installing what I thought would have been generally resolved from 5.7.4 on my

Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Michael
I was wondering: The print out on the terminal reads: 1973729 done, 3:49:08 elapsed. (0/7649/0 errors) what does "(0/7649/0 errors)" mean? On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Michael wrote: > I'm trying to run 'badblocks' but each time I run it get the same thing. > > $ sudo badblocks -b 4096 -

Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Matt Birkholz
> From: Bob Holtzman > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:06:29 -0700 > > Take your HTML and. > > My apologies to anyone I've offended with that. It's the ones you've frightened that you should worry about. ;-) I didn't even see the HTML. What damaged email reader are you abusing? :-) :-)

Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 06:14:12PM -0700, Michael Butash wrote: > > > > > > I'd say you have a bad unit.  Try pulling the drive out of it and > connecting it direct to a sata bus and see if that works to get a > response to the bus.  Either the drive, or the usb conve

Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Michael
I should have realized that! Thanks On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Brien Dieterle wrote: > Gparted tells you. It was /dev/sdd before, but check again as it can > change. Also unmount the filesystem first > > On Nov 25, 2016 8:50 AM, "Michael" wrote: > > I'm trying to run 'badblocks' bu

Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Brien Dieterle
Gparted tells you. It was /dev/sdd before, but check again as it can change. Also unmount the filesystem first On Nov 25, 2016 8:50 AM, "Michael" wrote: I'm trying to run 'badblocks' but each time I run it get the same thing. $ sudo badblocks -b 4096 -c 98304 -p 0 -w -s /media/bmike1/NexStar

Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Michael
I'm trying to run 'badblocks' but each time I run it get the same thing. $ sudo badblocks -b 4096 -c 98304 -p 0 -w -s /media/bmike1/NexStar badblocks: invalid starting block (0): must be less than 0 . . . I just googled the error and find: -Apparently this is Linux-speak for "This program needs

Re: new external drive

2016-11-25 Thread Michael
I don't know... it is so weird! I stepped away from the computer for the night. I thought all activity between gparted and the drive had ceased. In the morning everything was good. It was even reformatted just a few minutes ago. I think I'll run badblock on the device. On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:1