On Sunday, 19 בMarch 2006 18:01, Avraham Rosenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> First of all, thanks to Oded Arbel.
> A couple of new questions:
> 1-On the two quotations I received today, they propose SATA hard
> drives. Now, I know that less than two years ago, installing
> Linux, when the first drive (in this case the only drive ) was
> SATA, was a complicated affair, because the instalers did not
> contain drivers for those drives. What is the situation now ?
> I am speaking about debian, kernel 2.6.8. And, what distinguishes
> the SATA disks (in other words, is it worth the trouble) ?
> 2-As I am pretty happy with my present graphic card - ATI
> Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 7a), I thought that, maybe
> I shall transfer it to the new computer. But, apparently, the
> gigabyte motherboard I chose supports "1,5V display cards only".
> Anyone knows what that means?
Not really sure - maybe that the display adapter needs to accept 1.5V of
power ? Some high performance display adapter need 5V to operate and so
come with an socket to plug in one of the harddrive power connectors.
Anyway, the Rage IIc is an ancient piece of technology - that was made
obsolete by the Radeon chips some 6 years ago - and it won't be able to
drive modern resolutions and refresh rates, don't even mind the pixel
fill rate required to give you 30 frames per second on standard desktop
applications and video running at 1280x1024. My suggestion for you is
to upgrade - a no-thrills ATI 9250 or 7000 will set you back 200 NIS
and is well worth the extra investment, especially if you want to
benefit from the onset of graphical eye-candy that is about to decend
on us (xgl, aiglx, glucose, xgel, whatever)
> 3-I run smartctl on my hard disks. On the first one it failed 9
> times ( I understand nothing of the accompanying text), but on
> the second it found nothing wrong, not even that the boot sector
> is gone (that's why I inherited it, in the first place !). Is it
> kosher that this defect was not detected ?
Boot sector gone - i.e. was cut out with a knife ? what does "gone"
mean ? The boot sector is simply a small chunk of disk space (512 bytes
IIRC) that sits at a specific location. it may not be initialized -
which can easily be fixed by a low level format - but I can't see how
it can be "gone".
--
Oded
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