[9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question

Hi, I installed Plan 9 under Parallels 3 back in November of last year and it worked without a hitch. I tried to install another copy tonight and the bitmapped display isn't working in the new one, I just get a pure black screen after any aux/vga command that it thinks will succeed. I

Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question

On Sun Aug 2 05:39:10 EDT 2009, fus...@storytotell.org wrote: Hi, I installed Plan 9 under Parallels 3 back in November of last year and it worked without a hitch. I tried to install another copy tonight and the bitmapped display isn't working in the new one, I just get a pure black

Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like)

Ron, have you researched any long-term wear studies on these flash drives? I've heard a lot of good things, but I'm really put off by terms like wear levelling, filesystems optimized to work around flash's delicateness, etc. I'm really interested in any numbers anyone has. just looking at

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 from Outer Space, August 20

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Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question

Erik, Thanks for your speedy assistance! I think the two things are closely interrrelated via the global variable hardscreen. Reverting this file solved the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if there were something weird about Parallels' MTRR support, and since this isn't the current

Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like)

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 14:17, erik quanstromquans...@coraid.com wrote: assuming honest mtbf numbers, one would expect similar ures for the same io workload on the same size data set as mechanical disks.  since flash drives are much smaller, there would obviously be fewer ures per drive.  but

Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question

Also, are the old sources available online somewhere so I can do this kind of diff in the future on my own? you can use history(1) and yesterday(1) against sources. 9fs sources history -D sourcesdump /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/9/pc/vgavesa.c -Steve

Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question

Erik, Thanks for your speedy assistance! I think the two things are closely interrrelated via the global variable hardscreen. Reverting this file solved the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if there were something weird about Parallels' MTRR support, and since this isn't the current

Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like)

2009/8/2 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: http://www.pcworld.com/article/143558/laptop_flash_drives_hit_by_high_failure_rates.html surprising, no?  there are still plenty of reasons to want an ssd.  it just seems that reliablity isn't one of those reasons yet. The big one for me

Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like)

erik quanstrom wrote: just looking at the intel x25-e datasheet, the URE rate (unrecoverable read error) is the same as enterprise sata drives at 1e-15, but the mtbf is higher, but within a factor of two. assuming honest mtbf numbers, one would expect similar ures for the same io workload

Re: [9fans] just an idea (Splashtop like)

For the Intel SSD one must also consider: 3.5.4 Write Endurance 32 GB drive supports 1 petabyte of lifetime random writes and 64 GB drive supports 2 petabyte of lifetime random writes. That is equivalent to writing the capacity of the SSD 31250 times. At the specified random 4K write