On 07.05.15 09:35, Gene Heskett wrote:
Just one question: Since I know ext4 will fry the SSD eventually, what
filesystem are you using with them?
Some useful conclusions from firsthand experience are outlined here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives#Advantages_over_HDDs
On 05/07/2015 11:11 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
Most people will never come anywhere close to using up the
write lifetime of an SSD, but how much use one has had is
a consideration if you're buying a used one.
Never, ever, buy a used SSD!
Jon
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 18:44:32 Dave Cole wrote:
On 5/6/2015 3:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 14:17:23 Dave Cole wrote:
Hand editing grub is supposed to be a no-no. I have no idea why.
I used a graphical grub editor the last time I got in trouble with
grub and
You asked about SSD drives as replacement for rotating disks.
I've been using these:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A35X6GM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8psc=1
I've had some installed now for several years on commercial/industrial
machine that run daily and have yet to have a
On 5/7/2015 6:57 AM, Dave Cole wrote:
You asked about SSD drives as replacement for rotating disks.
I've been using these:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A35X6GM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8psc=1
I've had some installed now for several years on commercial/industrial
machine
On Thursday 07 May 2015 08:51:41 Dave Cole wrote:
Gene,
I'm sure I used it for Debian.
Look here at the second entry for a link to a Wheezy build:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=117971
The key line at that link:
Or we have Wheezy-compatible packages, built against the
Just running ext4.Yes, they will die eventually but apparently the
write leveling software in the drives pushes that out many years.
That drive I quoted isn't the fastest but it is fast enough and they
seem rock solid reliable.
An interesting article on SSDs and Linux.Note that they
On Thursday 07 May 2015 08:57:24 Dave Cole wrote:
You asked about SSD drives as replacement for rotating disks.
I've been using these:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A35X6GM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_
s00?ie=UTF8psc=1
One, with adaptor ordered. After this, I do NOT trust this 2T Toshiba
On Thursday 07 May 2015 10:22:07 Dave Cole wrote:
Just running ext4.Yes, they will die eventually but apparently the
write leveling software in the drives pushes that out many years.
That drive I quoted isn't the fastest but it is fast enough and they
seem rock solid reliable.
I would
On 7 May 2015 at 13:57, Dave Cole linuxcncro...@gmail.com wrote:
You asked about SSD drives as replacement for rotating disks.
I've been using these:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A35X6GM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8psc=1
I have been using these:
Gene,
I'm sure I used it for Debian.
Look here at the second entry for a link to a Wheezy build:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16t=117971
The key line at that link:
Or we have Wheezy-compatible packages, built against the Debian
libraries, in the MEPIS community repositories:
Or
On 04.05.15 10:06, Gene Heskett wrote:
I did make those changes to /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2 /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=
Gene,
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 05:43:22 Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 04.05.15 10:06, Gene Heskett wrote:
I did make those changes to /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2 /dev/null ||
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 09:52:48 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 05:43:22 Erik Christiansen wrote:
Apropos the useless manpages; there are a couple of those about,
deliberately left uninformative by one or two politicised developer
groups who wish to see info replace man.
On 5/6/2015 3:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 14:17:23 Dave Cole wrote:
Hand editing grub is supposed to be a no-no. I have no idea why.
I used a graphical grub editor the last time I got in trouble with
grub and that worked fine - no drama.
Dave
Do you recall the
On 6 May 2015 at 16:34, Erik Christiansen dva...@internode.on.net wrote:
The discussion has also slipped your memory, it seems. Google too. It
doesn't want to give hits in list archives any more, apparently, because
neither the above subject line, nor Message-ID: 4d9e8496.9070...@erols.com
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 11:34:02 Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 06.05.15 09:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
I do not know if the isolcpus=1 command was in the
old /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but after running update-grub, its gone!
Gene,
Oops - I'd forgotten our Beating Grub2 into submission discussion
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 14:17:23 Dave Cole wrote:
Hand editing grub is supposed to be a no-no. I have no idea why.
I used a graphical grub editor the last time I got in trouble with
grub and that worked fine - no drama.
Dave
Do you recall the name of it at this late date?
Thanks Dave.
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 13:21:35 Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 06.05.15 12:01, Gene Heskett wrote:
So I have added it manually to /boot/grub/grub.cfg on the normal,
default=0 entry.
I did that only to the normal boot, not to the recovery entry. And
now the drive refuses to e2fsck at
Hand editing grub is supposed to be a no-no. I have no idea why.
I used a graphical grub editor the last time I got in trouble with grub
and that worked fine - no drama.
Dave
On 5/6/2015 1:21 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 06.05.15 12:01, Gene Heskett wrote:
So I have added it manually to
On 06.05.15 12:01, Gene Heskett wrote:
So I have added it manually to /boot/grub/grub.cfg on the normal,
default=0 entry.
I did that only to the normal boot, not to the recovery entry. And now
the drive refuses to e2fsck at either the default superblock or the
suggested -b 8193 option
On 06.05.15 09:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
I do not know if the isolcpus=1 command was in the
old /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but after running update-grub, its gone!
Gene,
Oops - I'd forgotten our Beating Grub2 into submission discussion
in 2011, and been thinking in terms of the general case, where
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 10:17:58 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 09:52:48 Gene Heskett wrote:
On further checking, and I've no clue why its working on the milling
machines install, and not on the lathe machines install. Same install
cd in both cases.
The file 07_rtai is present
On 06.05.15 11:00, Gene Heskett wrote:
Troubleshooting tips gleefully checked out.
I think you're well ahead of the pack now.
(You're leaving me behind on the straight.)
Good luck with the possible fix.
Erik
--
One
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 11:00:27 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 10:17:58 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 06 May 2015 09:52:48 Gene Heskett wrote:
On further checking, and I've no clue why its working on the milling
machines install, and not on the lathe machines install.
On 03.05.15 20:51, Gene Heskett wrote:
So, ok, I'll byte. What is the magic keyboard incantation that will
allow the grub boot menu to be seen? It goes sailing right on by it.
It's a while since I stuffed around with grub, but info grub says that
it will boot immediately without displaying
On Monday 04 May 2015 05:04:04 Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 03.05.15 20:51, Gene Heskett wrote:
So, ok, I'll byte. What is the magic keyboard incantation that will
allow the grub boot menu to be seen? It goes sailing right on by
it.
It's a while since I stuffed around with grub, but info
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
There was GRUB_TIMEOUT = 0, GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10, and
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true in that file.
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 now, and the last line I'll consult the grub man pages
on.
Except exactly none of this stuff is
On Monday 04 May 2015 08:17:52 Mark Wendt wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
There was GRUB_TIMEOUT = 0, GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10, and
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true in that file.
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 now, and the last line I'll consult the grub man
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Gene,
At the top of the /etc/default/grub file, in the comments area, I
found this:
info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
Gave me a pretty thorough description of the parameters in the file.
Mark
Not for
On Monday 04 May 2015 08:57:39 Mark Wendt wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
Gene,
At the top of the /etc/default/grub file, in the comments area, I
found this:
info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
Gave me a pretty thorough
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I did make those changes to /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2 /dev/null || echo Debian`
On 4 May 2015 at 15:06, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I have now tried all the tricks to get the grub menu that have been
mentioned here, including holding down the right shift key while booting
from the original install cd for the ubu 10.04-4 LTS version.
I just restarted my Live-CD
On Monday 04 May 2015 10:22:15 Mark Wendt wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com
wrote:
I did make those changes to /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release
On Monday 04 May 2015 10:24:28 andy pugh wrote:
On 4 May 2015 at 15:06, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
I have now tried all the tricks to get the grub menu that have been
mentioned here, including holding down the right shift key while
booting from the original install cd for the ubu
A bit off topic, but, I noticed you, Gene, retyped the same command after
sudo. I'm unsure when it was added, but, you might try sudo !! to rerun a
command as root that you previously tried running as a normal user.
On May 4, 2015 11:04 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
On Monday 04 May
On Sunday 03 May 2015 20:51:56 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 02 May 2015 19:58:00 Gene Heskett wrote:
Chris Radek wanted me to run memtest+ on that box overnight.
I just looked at /boot/grun/grub.cfg and the choice does exest in that
file.
And I'm tired s/grun/grub
So, ok, I'll byte.
On Saturday 02 May 2015 19:58:00 Gene Heskett wrote:
Chris Radek wanted me to run memtest+ on that box overnight.
I just looked at /boot/grun/grub.cfg and the choice does exest in that
file.
So, ok, I'll byte. What is the magic keyboard incantation that will
allow the grub boot menu to be
On Saturday 02 May 2015 12:11:29 Gene Heskett wrote:
One thing I noted today was that when I put it all back together with the
new 1 hp motor, I neglected to run a solid ground from the lathes frame
to someplace on the star ground in the breakout and motor driver box.
So I hung a light weight
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