Subj : Re: What to do with a gia To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Wed Aug 28 2019 22:04:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > > And yes, I sort of figured you had found the information I did, just > > sometimes I'll put the search terms in a different sequence or add or > > leave out a phrase and find something unique. > KM> You never know, especially what with all the stupid custom > KM> results. No, Goo-duck, I want the exact thing I searched for, not > KM> what you think I wanted!!@*&^@@@##!! > > There are times when I do misspell/mistype something and Google will > offer the right one. There are also times when I try to type what I > want, with the plus and minus options, and still get what I didn't want. Duck is pretty good about that, but often as not I want MY spelling! > And sometimes just fun to help someone, like with the Adrian can't be > shut off in the previous message (or at least my reading sequence!). ^C > is the answer, or at least supposed to be the answer -- now you get to > find out why it didn't work. And maybe you knew about > www.TheAdrianProject.com, maybe not. Hadn't heard of it, tho I suppose it had to come from somewhere! But when I was quick-testing distros, the whole didn't impress me so much that I cared enough to chase after it. > > Interesting on the USB Boot. That is one way to do an installation with > > 'regular' computers, though I'm still using DVDs. > KM> You're supposed to use the embedded management engine, which I > KM> haven't entirely figured out yet. I read the fine manual and was > KM> not enlightened. I watched a video and began to have a glimmer. > KM> Perhaps I'll experiment and hope nothing explodes. One of the > KM> SSDs will be used as the OS drive (it has two 2.5" internal drive > KM> bays for this very purpose). > > I'll admit to (maybe too freqently!) want it NOW. The DVD installation Last week would be nice. :D And I would like this knowledge to just magically appear in my head; I have little patience with pursuing it. Maybe next year I won't be so busy, and will also be officially an Old Fogey eligible for free tuition, so maybe I'll go take a networking course at the college... > just about always seems to work -- there are two computers where the DVD > seems to have been software-disconnected and so they have been sitting > gathering dust - literally. Used to work, for some reason don't work > now, or the last time I tried. It doesn't have a DVD drive. I'd have to use the USB DVD (which I happen to have) or hook a loose drive to the internal SATA port. > Thumbdrive installation probably is no big deal and probably is a little > faster, though doesn't give me the flashing LED indicator like a DVD > does to say something is happening even though the screen is just > sitting there. Flash drive install is a LOT faster, probably 10x faster for the average install, and better yet if it's USB3. Optical drive is severely limited by low rotational speed (have you seen the demos of CDs flying apart in shards at speeds above 52x?). And most flash drives have a busy-LED, tho commonly it points at the floor if plugged into the mainboard port. This is solved by using a cable (be sure it supports USB3) so it can flap around in sight. :) > Never tried a network install. Me neither. > > Now for the "what would I do with 53 pounds of server?". And what was > KM> Boat anchor? :) > > I wonder if that's enough for the current on the Mississippi River? > (It's only about a dozen blocks from the house.) Probably not :) Have friends across the river in Davenport, only a block from the river (EEEK!) tho they tell me behind good levees. (whew!) > KM> 24TB straight up. Plus I'll probably hunt down some used SAS > KM> (cheaper than used SATA) HDs to fill the vacated bays. > > Wasn't familar with the term and probably others aren't either so here: Yeah, you pretty much never see SAS drives unless you have a server! Never thought I'd own one, let alone eight. Or twelve once I get it refilled (need to check how large it supports). > SAS SSD vs. SATA SSD > A SSD delivers faster data transfer rates than a serial ATA (SATA) SSD. > ... SAS drives use a higher signal voltage than SATA drives and can > reliably transmit data -- with better overall data integrity end to > end -- at twice the speed of SATA drives. > > https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/SAS-SSD-Serial-Attached- > SCSI-solid-state-drive > > OK, may as well go with the super-speed while you're at it! Yep. And they're HGST 7200rpm so I expect the speed is impressive, and this particular drive, per Backblaze stats, almost never fails. > "Ytch!" I've got a bunch of JPGs from my first visit to Vienna which > somehow became corrupted on the camera (cell phone) memory card -- have > been able to recover some and others are still need to be worked on - > just hadn't looked around for better/other repair utilities plus wanted > a faster computer (like this one which I built in the interim) to > hopefully get things done quicker. There is no repair utility as such, other than extracting 'em from whatever sectors were recoverable, then hand-editing the resulting file. You have to learn what is and isn't data by sight, and hand-delete what's not. Foreign junk will always be some multiple of a sector, or the slack space at the end of a cluster. (Yet another reason to defrag early and often!!) When you see a JPG with the bottom part tutti-fruiti, but otherwise the displayed size looks right, you've got some garbage in the middle of the file (it can only decode and display down to the garbage). Delete that garbage with your handy hex editor (Frhed in my case), making sure there are no leftover bytes, and assuming the rest of the data is intact, the file should look normal again. IIRC Frhed lets you jump down N-many bytes, so I'd find the bad spot, then jump down by sector (selecting as I went) and after one or more jumps landing right on the next good byte. Delete, done. Got so my average processing time for ordinary corruption was about 30 seconds. > RAID and JBOD do seem a little 'dangerous'. I will admit to using JBOD > with my backup NAS in the basement. So far so good. Know with JBOD if > one drive fails essentially all fail, as far as the data component is > concerned. Oy. https://blog.storagecraft.com/jbod-care/ I don't know why I'd want the One Big Disk effect. I'm perfectly good with drives named \\Bullet\Easystore and \\Bullet\H and... okay, it does get a little windy... Shared resources at \\bullet Share name Type Used as Comment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bullet_C_W98 Disk Bullet_D Disk Bullet_E Disk (UNC) Bullet_F_XP Disk (UNC) Bullet_WD500 Disk (UNC) CitizenG Print Citizen GSX-230 E2B (J) Disk (UNC) EasyStore Disk (UNC) Epson3250 Print Epson AP-3250 ESC/P 2 G_MAIL (G) Disk H Disk (UNC) HP2100TN Print HP LaserJet 2100 PCL6 HPLaserJet2100 Print HP LaserJet 2100 L-XD-Fuji Disk Lexar (J) Bullet Disk M-SD-card Disk My Book (O) Disk (UNC) My Documents Disk My Pictures Disk Printer Print HP LaserJet IIIP Printer3 Print HP LaserJet 4P/4MP PS SharedDocs Disk Shared resources at \\silver SILVER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Scratch Disk G-Hitachi320 Disk HPLaserJ Print HP LaserJet 1020 Mail (M) Disk SD120 (F) Disk SILVER-RAMdisk (Z) Disk SILVER-WD1000 Disk SILVER-WD250 Disk Shared resources at \\dell-pc Share name Type Used as Comment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- !SHARED Disk (UNC) C Disk (UNC) Users Disk The Dell's C and Users shares exist but do not work. Apparently one must do ugly hoop-jumping to share the root on Win7 and above, so I just dump everything I want to share in !SHARED. XP lets me share the root at my convenience. And tho the linux box can see everyone else, hell if I can figure out how to GET it to share (SAMBA did not help). > KM> On the scattered PCs I have about 8-10 TB, > KM> not counting semi-random duplications, er, I mean backups of > KM> disks-in-use. > > I'll have to allow ballpark as I know I have duplicated duplicates here. > Working on combining the various 'storages' here. A lot of duplicate Yeah, someday I need to make one consolidated backup. Real Soon Now! > filenames but enough where the filename is the same but the data is > different I don't want to just click the automatic overwrite or skip Not me, I've got way too many same names different file. > options. Also had an issue like you with all the files got dumped into > a common directory, so loss of the subdirectories. I don't want the > computer stuff mixed with the car stuff mixed with the house stuff, so > that is being separated. Erk, that would be all sorts of fun... > KM> I'm thinkin' backup server and maybe occasional media server... > > It'll look impressive stating you have 18 TB (or whatever) of storage! > Just don't display the "free space = 16.2 TB" part!! Haha.. likely I'll assign each disk a particular backup job, and maybe make a redundant copy on another disk. > KM> ...if I ripped all the DVDs, which I should for backup purposes > KM> anyway, it'd be... well, there go the rest of those TBs... > KM> http://www.the-sandpit.com/misc/dvdlist.htm > KM> Who buys all this crap? Worse, who watches all this crap? :) > KM> Junk fills the brain cells allotted. :D > > Well there are some I'd find interesting. If the "Becker DVD" is the Becket. Excellent film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becket_(1964_film) > one from the TV show I used to watch. Not into Star Wars, though would > watch Planet of the Apes. I love the original films, and like the brief TV series because Roddy McDowall makes anything good. Haven't yet watched the new ones. ....Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles??!! One of many from Walmart's $3 bin. But I liked the animated series, so what the heck. Haven't watched 'em yet. Alice to Nowhere is exceedingly rare (and not on DVD other than crappy bootlegs)... tripped over it for cheap on eBay, guy did not know what he had... Had quite a bit of that luck in the past year. One was a reference book I thought I'd never even SEE, let alone own... there are only 8, maybe 9 copies known to exist. And someone had it up for $25. GIMME!!! þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .