On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:56 PM, David G. Miller d...@davenjudy.org wrote:
CTRL+ALT+F2 through CTRL+ALT+F6 (where F# = Function key #) will bring up an
alternate console. Hold down Control and Alt then pick a function key. Get
back to the GUI with CTRL+ALT+F1 on Fedora or CTRL+ALT+F7 on RHEL
Allegedly, on or about 28 January 2013, Sam Varshavchik sent:
1) The hard drive does an emergency park of the R/W head. That does
incur some cost, in terms of wear and tear.
Are there any consumer hard drives that still do a controlled park,
rather than just get switched off?
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2013/1/29 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com:
When the machine freezes, try pressing Alt-SysRq-b to force a reboot, if the
kernel is still alive, somewhere. This will still require a filesystem
repair, but at least it'll save wear/tear on the hard drives.
Even better is to use Alt + SysRq
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:24 AM, David G. Miller d...@davenjudy.org wrote:
When the systems freezes, is it safe to hold down the power button to
power off the machine? If not, what alternatives do you suggest?
Simple test: if CapsLock and/or NumLock and/or ScrollLock still work (keyboard
Tim writes:
Allegedly, on or about 28 January 2013, Sam Varshavchik sent:
1) The hard drive does an emergency park of the R/W head. That does
incur some cost, in terms of wear and tear.
Are there any consumer hard drives that still do a controlled park,
rather than just get switched off?
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Paul Smith wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:24 AM, David G. Miller d...@davenjudy.org wrote:
When the systems freezes, is it safe to hold down the power button to
power off the machine? If not, what alternatives do you suggest?
Simple test: if CapsLock and/or NumLock
Tim:
Are there any consumer hard drives that still do a controlled park,
rather than just get switched off?
Sam Varshavchik:
On my laptop with a ~4 year old hard drive, there's quite an audible
difference between a forcible power-off, with a clunk, and an orderly
shutdown that turns the
On 01/29/2013 03:28 AM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 28 January 2013, Sam Varshavchik sent:
1) The hard drive does an emergency park of the R/W head. That does
incur some cost, in terms of wear and tear.
Are there any consumer hard drives that still do a controlled park,
rather than just
Max Pyziur pyz at brama.com writes:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Paul Smith wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:24 AM, David G. Miller dave at davenjudy.org
wrote:
When the systems freezes, is it safe to hold down the power button to
power off the machine? If not, what alternatives do you
Tim writes:
Hmm, I'll have to have a listen out for what my laptop does. I can well
imagine laptops having an emergency shutoff, seeing as some of them use
motion detectors to protect drives against bangs.
But my external drives seem to make the same loudish bang when they put
themselves to
On 01/28/2013 04:57 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
When the systems freezes, is it safe to hold down the power button to
power off the machine? If not, what alternatives do you suggest?
My laptop doesn't do that. My desktop does, and most of the time I have
to use the reset button, but if
Paul Smith writes:
Dear All,
When the systems freezes, is it safe to hold down the power button to
power off the machine? If not, what alternatives do you suggest?
Thanks in advance,
There are two consequences to a hard poweroff, like that:
1) The hard drive does an emergency park of the
On 01/29/2013 12:57 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All,
When the systems freezes, is it safe to hold down the power button to
power off the machine? If not, what alternatives do you suggest?
looking for more fish? (GBWG)
if your system is freezing, put a heavy blanket around it to keep
it
On 01/28/2013 05:31 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
When the machine freezes, try pressing Alt-SysRq-b to force a reboot, if
the kernel is still alive, somewhere. This will still require a
filesystem repair, but at least it'll save wear/tear on the hard drives.
In an ext3/ext4 filesystem,
On 1/28/2013 5:36 PM, g wrote:
if your system is freezing, put a heavy blanket around it to keep
it warm.
Life would be so much easier if it was this easy ...
Thanks,
Paul
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On 01/29/2013 01:50 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
On 1/28/2013 5:36 PM, g wrote:
if your system is freezing, put a heavy blanket around it to keep
it warm.
Life would be so much easier if it was this easy ...
more true than many realize.
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peace out.
tc.hago,
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Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com writes:
When the systems freezes, is it safe to hold down the power button to
power off the machine? If not, what alternatives do you suggest?
Simple test: if CapsLock and/or NumLock and/or ScrollLock still work (keyboard
light reflects change in state), you have a
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