general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

[Vincent Hoffman]

Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:56:12AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
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>>> 	the datasheets for the 40G drives are lost lost.
>>>       
>> Oh, come now! If you still know what make and model the drives are, the
>> datasheets are available online.
>>
>>     
>
> sure they're online,but i don't remember whether they were Seagate or
> something else.  and putting then in was a nightmare.    [[ for some
> reason, these hp kayaks have baffles and partitions and more things you
> gotta unscrew.]]  it took a REAL (hardware) EE close to an hour.
>
>   

you can often (always for me so far) find your drive model info from
smartctl -a /dev/{devnode}
(from the port sysutils/smartmontools)
example output

-------------------------------------------------------

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 family
Device Model:     Maxtor 6E040L0
Serial Number:    E1PAM22E
Firmware Version: NAR61EA0
User Capacity:    41,110,142,976 bytes
---------------------snip------------------------------

Vince

> ------this brings me to another question butnotnow!
>
>
>   
>> -- 
>> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
>> ========================================================================
>> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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