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Re: firefox-37, where to put




On Saturday 04 April 2015 14:24:31 Ric Moore wrote:
> On 04/04/2015 03:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 April 2015 02:41:05 Ric Moore wrote:
> >> On 04/03/2015 10:52 AM, David Wright wrote:
> >>> Quoting Gene Heskett (gheskett@wdtv.com):
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> When he mentioned drives in a hot swap cage, isn't that RAID?? Then
> >> didn't the installer made the correct call? :/ Ric
> >
> > No raid involved Ric, just 3 drives in a hot swap cage,
> > tigerdirect.com did have them, about a $70 bill when I bought this
> > one after Jim showed me that was what he was using in all his new
> > builds at the tv station.
> >
> > Here, 	sda is the drive I am booted from,
>
> Is sda the hotplug cage of drives??

Its in there yes, but there is no "electronics" in the cage other than 
the bldc commutation stuff in the fan motor.  Each pocket has its own 
sata cable socket, connected to the corresponding sata socket on the 
motherboard. All individually connect and mounted in /etc/fstab.

> I BET you have raid.

Pay up Ric!  Uhh, what was the bet? :)

> If so, then  
> the installer wouldn't let you mess with it, which accounts for much.
> :) Ric

You might want to go dry off your theory before it gets all mushy, as 
its all wet. ;-)
>
The motherboard manual says it has a both an nvidia nforce controller 
and jmicron, which can do raid up to 5 for the nvidia, and only 0/1 on 
the jmicron, and both do JBOD, but its never been configured as anything 
but individual drives.

df currently reports:

Filesystem                                              1K-blocks      Used  Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                                                  944923028 128755476  768168168  15% /
udev                                                        10240         0      10240   0% /dev
tmpfs                                                      819968       868     819100   1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/9fe9e68d-9827-4c8b-af4a-0753996f5e04  944923028 128755476  768168168  15% /
tmpfs                                                        5120         0       5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                                                     4994340         0    4994340   0% /run/shm
/dev/sdb2                                               960929128 607842648  304274040  67% /amandatapes
shop.coyote.den:/                                       234470400   7254784  215305216   4% /net/shop
lathe.coyote.den:/                                     1917316096   3143680 1816778496   1% /net/lathe
shop:/home/gene                                         234470400   7254784  215305216   4% /net/shop/home/gene
lathe:/home                                            1917316096   3143680 1816778496   1% /net/lathe/home

Humm, never paid any attention to the drive size in the lathes box till
now.  No wonder they were hesitant to sell me that "student" special when
I went to buy the 2nd one 4 months later.  They actually had to, because 
the 250Gb drives were gone, to put a 2Tb drive in that machine in order to 
ship the full kit!  And despite running the exact same installs, the
lathe gives me a login for an ssh -Y session at least 5x faster than on
the original.  They are both ARK shoeboxes with an Intel D525MW atom based
motherboard, a gig of ram, r-w optical drive.  $265 with a throwaway keyboard,
matching mouse, both  wired, and mouse pad + a boom mic & headset, sitting
on my front deck after the brown truck was gone.

> --
> My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
> ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
> Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
> http://linuxcounter.net/user/44256.html

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>


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