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| Douglas Mayne... |
 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:35 pm |
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I have a Seagate HD similar to this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Mg2vczlwL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
I plan on using this to hold the root and swap partitions (using an
IDE->CF adapter). I ran a badblocks test on the drive, formatted, etc.
with no issues. I am a bit concerned by the fine print warning, though. My
drive shows the same warning as shown on the linked image (above),
"Embedded Applications Only." What usage is this warning intended to
prevent? In your opinion, is use as swap/root okay, or not?
Thanks in advance.
BTW, on similar drives, I have had to set sleep mode off,
# hdparm -S 0 /dev/hda
I learned about that the hard way.
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| Hactar... |
| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:18 pm |
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In article <pan.2008.09.08.21.35.34.843401 at (no spam) localhost.localnet>,
Douglas Mayne <doug at (no spam) localhost.localnet> wrote:
Quote: I have a Seagate HD similar to this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Mg2vczlwL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
I plan on using this to hold the root and swap partitions (using an
IDE->CF adapter). I ran a badblocks test on the drive, formatted, etc.
with no issues. I am a bit concerned by the fine print warning, though. My
drive shows the same warning as shown on the linked image (above),
"Embedded Applications Only." What usage is this warning intended to
prevent? In your opinion, is use as swap/root okay, or not?
Is that a CF card? Dunno how limited writes are on CF, but on some
Flash media they're a no-no. And turn off modtime tracking for
filesystems on there too.
If it's not, WTF is it?
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| Bill Marcum... |
| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:23 pm |
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On 2008-09-09, Hactar <ebenZEROONE at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
Quote: In article <pan.2008.09.08.21.35.34.843401 at (no spam) localhost.localnet>,
Douglas Mayne <doug at (no spam) localhost.localnet> wrote:
I have a Seagate HD similar to this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Mg2vczlwL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
I plan on using this to hold the root and swap partitions (using an
IDE->CF adapter). I ran a badblocks test on the drive, formatted, etc.
with no issues. I am a bit concerned by the fine print warning, though. My
drive shows the same warning as shown on the linked image (above),
"Embedded Applications Only." What usage is this warning intended to
prevent? In your opinion, is use as swap/root okay, or not?
Is that a CF card? Dunno how limited writes are on CF, but on some
Flash media they're a no-no. And turn off modtime tracking for
filesystems on there too.
If it's not, WTF is it?
The label in the picture says it's an HDD and it's been repaired. Flash
drives usually have capacity that's a power of 2. I assume the 1.2 in
the subject means 1.2 inch. I don't know what "Embedded Applications
Only" means, maybe it isn't guaranteed to work with Windows. |
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| Douglas Mayne... |
| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:58 am |
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On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:23:04 +0200, Bill Marcum wrote:
Quote: On 2008-09-09, Hactar <ebenZEROONE at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
In article <pan.2008.09.08.21.35.34.843401 at (no spam) localhost.localnet>,
Douglas Mayne <doug at (no spam) localhost.localnet> wrote:
I have a Seagate HD similar to this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Mg2vczlwL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
I plan on using this to hold the root and swap partitions (using an
IDE->CF adapter). I ran a badblocks test on the drive, formatted, etc.
with no issues. I am a bit concerned by the fine print warning, though. My
drive shows the same warning as shown on the linked image (above),
"Embedded Applications Only." What usage is this warning intended to
prevent? In your opinion, is use as swap/root okay, or not?
Is that a CF card? Dunno how limited writes are on CF, but on some
Flash media they're a no-no. And turn off modtime tracking for
filesystems on there too.
If it's not, WTF is it?
The label in the picture says it's an HDD and it's been repaired. Flash
drives usually have capacity that's a power of 2. I assume the 1.2 in
the subject means 1.2 inch. I don't know what "Embedded Applications
Only" means, maybe it isn't guaranteed to work with Windows.
Yes, it's a 3600RPM magnetic hard drive in the CF (Type II) form factor.
It has 2M cache, too.
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| Michael Ole Olsen... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:45 pm |
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i use noatime mount for my nfs shares that could be useful too in your case.
On 2008-09-09, Douglas Mayne <doug at (no spam) localhost.localnet> wrote:
Quote: On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:23:04 +0200, Bill Marcum wrote:
On 2008-09-09, Hactar <ebenZEROONE at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
In article <pan.2008.09.08.21.35.34.843401 at (no spam) localhost.localnet>,
Douglas Mayne <doug at (no spam) localhost.localnet> wrote:
I have a Seagate HD similar to this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Mg2vczlwL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
I plan on using this to hold the root and swap partitions (using an
IDE->CF adapter). I ran a badblocks test on the drive, formatted, etc.
with no issues. I am a bit concerned by the fine print warning, though. My
drive shows the same warning as shown on the linked image (above),
"Embedded Applications Only." What usage is this warning intended to
prevent? In your opinion, is use as swap/root okay, or not?
Is that a CF card? Dunno how limited writes are on CF, but on some
Flash media they're a no-no. And turn off modtime tracking for
filesystems on there too.
If it's not, WTF is it?
The label in the picture says it's an HDD and it's been repaired. Flash
drives usually have capacity that's a power of 2. I assume the 1.2 in
the subject means 1.2 inch. I don't know what "Embedded Applications
Only" means, maybe it isn't guaranteed to work with Windows.
Yes, it's a 3600RPM magnetic hard drive in the CF (Type II) form factor.
It has 2M cache, too.
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