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• SMPS stops when I plug in a SATA drive?

  - by claws

  Hello, Part 1: my first question is all the 4 wire power connectors (intended for hardisks/dvd drives not mother board) are same. Right? I've been using all of them same and I had no problem for years. Yesterday I borrowed a SATA disk from my friend and connected it my computer using Sata Power adaptor (4 wire) and when I switched on the computer. There were fumes coming out of the connector. I immediately turned it off (in just one second). I tested the voltages in the 4 wire power connector of my SMPS: They were 5.3v & 12.2V. I couldn't measure the current. But my SMPTS label reads: DC Output: 3.3v (25A) +5v (32A) -5v (0.3A) +12V (17A) -12V (0.8A) And the SATA hardisk label reads Input: +5v (0.72A) +12V (0.52A) I'm shocked! I never noticed this. Does the "sata power adaptor" scale down the current to required? If it doesn't, I've been connecting same way for years. I never had any problem. This is the first time I'm encountering it. Part 2: I wanted to return the drive to my friend. He has two hard disks, SATA & PATA. Its the SATA that I borrowed. When he usually switches on. The CPU fan starts & then stops for a sec and starts again and continues working. That was the earlier situation. I don't know why it stops & starts? Well, Now when I connect this SATA disk and switch ON the computer. CPU fan starts (just for an instant, not even a 0.5 sec) and stops. It doesn't start again, I mean the power from SMPS has stopped. But if I disconnect this SATA disk. It works fine. What seems to be the problem? I've no idea about why there were fumes or why his SMPS starts & stops giving power? What is its relation with the SATA disk connection?

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• Disk usage treemap software for headless Linux

  - by CyberShadow

  There are some programs which can display used disk space using a treemap, such as WinDirStat for Windows and KDirStat for KDE/Linux: I'm looking for something similar, but for a headless Linux box. Alternatively, what are other good ways to visualize used disk space with just SSH access?

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• external hard drive is no longer recognized, gives buffer I/O errors

  - by BioGeek

  Hi all, The external hard drive which contains all my photos and where I backed-up all my important documents is no longer recognized. It is a three month old 500GB Iomage Prestige Desktop Hard Drive. When I plug it in, it is recognised as a USB device, because it shows up when I type lsusb, but dmesg gives this error message. [19712.013250] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 21 [19712.145347] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [19712.147214] scsi25 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [19712.147514] usb-storage: device found at 21 [19712.147519] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [19717.148978] usb-storage: device scan complete [19717.149527] scsi 25:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST350082 0AS PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS [19717.151020] sd 25:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [19717.151685] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB) [19717.160402] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [19717.160412] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00 [19717.160418] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [19717.165685] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [19717.165691] sdb: sdb1 [19719.171808] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [19719.171818] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [19737.430998] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code [19737.431007] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [19737.431016] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [19737.431027] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error [19737.431038] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 6160463 [19737.431050] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160400 [19737.431060] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160401 [19737.431067] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160402 [19737.431075] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160403 [19737.431082] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160404 [19737.431088] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160405 [19737.431096] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160406 [19737.431102] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160407 [19737.431114] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160408 [19737.431121] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6160409 [19737.712183] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code [19737.712191] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [19737.712200] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [19737.712210] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: No additional sense information [19737.712222] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 [19737.712232] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 Neither does the external drive show when I use fdisk: jeroen@phalacrocorax:~$ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for jeroen: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000341ad Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 18714 150320173+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 18715 19457 5968147+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 18715 19457 5968116 82 Linux swap / Solaris` I popped the disk out of the casing put it on a SATA connect internally and then tried the file recovery programs testdisk/photorec and SpinRite, but both failed because they couldn't recognize the external harddisk. Do I have any other options?

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• VMWare Server - Writing files to virtual hard drive performance

  - by Ardman

  We have just moved our infrastructure from physical servers to virtual machines. Everything is running great and we are happy with the result of the move. We have identified one problem, and that is reading/writing performance. We have an application that compiles files and writes to disk. This is considerably slower on the new virtual machines compared to the physical machines. Is there a performance bottleneck when writing to a virtual hard drive compared to a physical hard drive?

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• Keeping new Ubuntu installation's /var on separate drive without formatting

  - by tlayton

  I have a server running an older version of Ubuntu and with /var stored on a separate partition on a separate hard drive. I am attempting to update Ubuntu to 10.04, but I still want to store /var on a separate partition and hard drive. However, I don't want to format the drive which currently contains /var, as it has important data. Is there some way to have 10.04 set up the new /var on this separate drive at installation, without formatting the drive and losing the old /var?

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• Drive not able to be added to Storage Spaces

  - by Bram Vanroy

  I am having difficulties trying to create a storage space. I have four Hard Drives in my computer. Samsung 128Gb SSD x2 Caviar Green 2TB Older 320 Gb drive I want to merge the two last ones. The problem is, that the 2TB drive does not show up in the configuration screen.: I formatted both hard drives so that can't be it. Any help is appreciated. Edit: larger view: http://bramvanroy.be/files/images/storagespaces.jpg

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• VMWare - Writing files to virtual hard drive performance

  - by Ardman

  We have just moved our infrastructure from physical servers to virtual machines. Everything is running great and we are happy with the result of the move. We have identified one problem, and that is reading/writing performance. We have an application that compiles files and writes to disk. This is considerably slower on the new virtual machines compared to the physical machines. Is there a performance bottleneck when writing to a virtual hard drive compared to a physical hard drive?

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• Using SSD as disk cache

  - by casualcoder

  Is there software for Linux to use an SSD as disk cache? I believe that Sun does something like this with ZFS, though not sure. A quick search provides nothing suitable. The goal would be to put frequently requested files on the SSD on-the-fly. Since the SSD has more capacity than RAM for less money and better performance than hard disk, this should provide an efficient performance boost.

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• Hard disk number in boot.ini?

  - by MA1

  Hi All Need help to remove a confusion. Suppose we have two hard disk. Referring to boot.ini, In case of MULTI and SCSI syntax: which parameter exactly tells us hard disk number? Regards,

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• Is keeping the primary hard disk as disk C: still relevant?

  - by Jeremy French

  Back in the day, floppy disks were a: and if you were lucky b:, then when permanent storage came along c: was the default for hard disks (as I remember it) Now that many computers no longer have floppy disks is it possible to have your primary hard disk as A: is the convention out dated? Removable drives (like DVDs and flash readers) now seem to take lower precedence than permanent storage so it is a bit of an oddity that floppy disks should have higher letters.

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• Macbook Pro keeps ejecting anything I put into the internal optical drive

  - by Wroblewski

  My hard disk crashed and I need to reinstall Mac OS X. I restart, insert the installation DVD, press c on the keyboard and the dvd ejects. I've tried different DVDs, even CDs. It's a Macbook Pro from march 2008. Is it broken? Or can it be something more severe like the firewire controller on the motherboard (since I noticed this after my hard drive started to act strangely)? I've ran Apple Hardware Test successfully.

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• How to measure disk-performance under Windows?

  - by Alphager

  I'm trying to find out why my application is very slow on a certain machine (runs fine everywhere else). I think i have traced the performance-problems to hard-disk reads and writes and i think it's simply the very slow disk. What tool could i use to measure hd read and write performance under Windows 2003 in a non-destructive way (the partitions on the drives have to remain intact)?

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• Using a flash drive to speed up conventional disks (on linux)

  - by Daniel

  Hi! Is there a possibility to use a flash drive as a speed up for conventional hard disks? I got the idea to redirect all read ops to the flash drive if the data is already stored there, and to read from the conventional disks if the data is not found there (and during idle time the freshly accessed data from the conventional disk is stored on the flash disk). Is this already possible with linux standard tools?

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• Western Digital Smartware not detect External HDD

  - by romilnagrani

  Hi people, i recently buy WD Mybook Essential HDD 1 TB. I downloaded and install Smartware software in both my desktop (windows xp) and laptop (Windows 7) but in both case the s/w is not able to detect the external hard disc. It shows desktop/laptop (Whichever is apt) on left hand side of software but not the hard drive on right side. Why so? i need to install smartware s/w as my friend had gave me which i suppose had deleted the software. please help me thanks

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• When to use a RAM-Disk?

  - by Ice

  Hi, I know that RAM-Disk are fast, faster than any Disk but they lose their contents on a shutdown of the operating system. The capacity is limited to the RAM. Is there a usefull implementation on a new 64-Bit windows 2008 server? Peace Ice

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• Use Seagate hard drive for both mac and windows

  - by Nick LaMarca

  I recently bought a seagate for mac 1tb external hard drive. When I connect to my macbook through the fire wire it works fine, but I also have media on my dell laptop which is running vista. When I connect the hard drive to that laptop using the usb cable vista doesnt recognize it. What am I doing wrong?

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• Use Seagate hard drive for both mac and windows

  - by Nick LaMarca

  I recently bought a seagate for mac 1tb external hard drive. When I connect to my macbook through the fire wire it works fine, but I also have media on my dell laptop which is running vista. When I connect the hard drive to that laptop using the usb cable vista doesnt recognize it. What am I doing wrong?

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• RunDLL error Hard Disk Drive

  - by stanleyenriquez

  I can't open my hard disk drive. The error box says "RUnDLL, there was a problem starting ~$WCFLPM.FAT32 The specified module could not be found". My HDD has a virus before. My hard disk contains a shortcut and the shortcut contains all files. I don't want to format it just yet because it contains quite many files. I tried troubleshooting it but none of the solutions in the internet helped.

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• How to Enable an External USB Hard Drive with Ubuntu

  - by LarsOn

  I'm trying to install a new LaCie Hard Disk design by Neil Poulton 1TB USB 2.0. GParted reports /dev/sda1 (with exclamation mark and key sign) ntfs 1 KiB unallocated 320 MiB /dev/sda2 hfs+ 2.84 MiB unallocated 931.2 GiB When trying to create a partition with Disk Utility it says Daemon is inhibited It seems I can't create the partition that way. Can you recommend how I can proceed? Thank you

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• HD failure questions ...

  - by JP

  I recently had one of my home PC hard drives fail. It was in a striped raid, so I had to rebuild the raid (no data lost, only the OS partition was there). Is there any way to diagnose exactly what went wrong with the drive? That is what caused the failure? Also, in general, what is a good way to dispose of a failed hard drive securely and realistically (I don't have thermite or muriatic acid)?

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• Is it possible that solid state drives (or any faster drive) will make common applications faster even if they are cached?

  - by leladax

  I assumed that solid state drives are insignificant after, say, Firefox is fully brought up and no important disk activity after that is going on. However, I wonder if some kind of 'cached from the disk to the CPU' activity is going on that may make solid state drives (or any faster drive) better. Then again, I suspect that may be depended only on the Bus (or some kind of cache memory drives have). Hrm..

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• Mac OS X application to sync a folder to another disk in real time

  - by Mike

  Do you guys know any software that can reproduce the entire tree of directories under a certain directory to another disk and keep it update in real-time on Mac OS X? A kind of mirror RAID, but instead of mirroring the whole disk I need to mirror just all directories inside one specific directory. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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• Recover harddrive data

  - by gameshints

  I have a dell laptop that recently "died" (It would get the blue screen of death upon starting) and the hard drive would make a weird cyclic clicking noises. I wanted to see if I could use some tools on my linux machine to recover the data, so I plugged it into there. If I run "fdisk" I get: Disk /dev/sdb: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 19077 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Disk identifier: 0x64651a0a Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table Fine, the partition table is messed up. However if I run "testdisk" in attempt to fix the table, it freezes at this point, making the same cyclical clicking noises: Disk /dev/sdb - 20 GB / 18 GiB - CHS 19078 64 32 Analyse cylinder 158/19077: 00% I don't really care about the hard drive working again, and just the data, so I ran "gpart" to figure out where the partitions used to be. I got this: dev(/dev/sdb) mss(512) chs(19077/64/32)(LBA) #s(39069696) size(19077mb) * Warning: strange partition table magic 0x2A55. Primary partition(1) type: 222(0xDE)(UNKNOWN) size: 15mb #s(31429) s(63-31491) chs: (0/1/1)-(3/126/63)d (0/1/32)-(15/24/4)r hex: 00 01 01 00 DE 7E 3F 03 3F 00 00 00 C5 7A 00 00 Primary partition(2) type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX) (BOOT) size: 19021mb #s(38956987) s(31492-38988478) chs: (4/0/1)-(895/126/63)d (15/24/5)-(19037/21/31)r hex: 80 00 01 04 07 7E FF 7F 04 7B 00 00 BB 6F 52 02 So I tried to mount just to the old NTFS partition, but got an error: sudo mount -o loop,ro,offset=16123904 -t ntfs /dev/sdb /mnt/usb NTFS signature is missing. Ugh. Okay. But then I tried to get a raw data dump by running dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/erik/brokenhd skip=31492 count=38956987 But the file got up to 59885568 bytes, and made the same cyclical clicking noises. Obviously there is a bad sector, but I don't know what to do about it! The data is still there... if I view that 57MB file in textpad... I can see raw data from files. How can I get my data back? Thanks for any suggestions, Solution: I was able to recover about 90% of my data: Froze harddrive in freezer Used Ddrescue to make a copy of the drive Since Ddrescue wasn't able to get enough of my drive to use testdisk to recover my partitions/file system, I ended up using photorec to recover most of my files

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• Blaze error: No disk in drive

  - by jruday

  Running Blaze on Win 7 64-bit PC and getting the following error: There is not disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive\Device\Harddisk2\DR2. View error message here: http://screencast.com/t/ZjQxNDc0NW. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

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• How to clear Windows disk read cache?

  - by Sebastiaan Megens

  For performance testing I need to clear Windows' disk read cache. I tried googling but I couldn't find anything other than rebooting or other manual stuff. Before I give in and do that, I'd like to know if anyone knows of a way to clear Windows disk read cache. I'm testing on Windows 7, but I'm also interested in Windows XP solutions.

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