A permanent data storage device used for storing and retrieving digital information using rapidly rotating discs (platters) coated with magnetic material in a rigid form factor (as opposed to floppy disks).
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Issue with bad sectors on a laptop hard drive
I had Windows installed on my laptop and suddenly one morning Windows couldn't start. Then I tried after formatting and for once it became possible.
I also installed Ubuntu as logical drive (deleted ...
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Gentoo LiveCD from Hard Drive: No Mountable Filesystems on root after modules loaded
I am attempting to install Gentoo on my PowerPC Mac. I have reached the point where I can boot the LiveCD (I have no functional CD Drive, so it is from a spare Hard Drive), but after the kernel is ...
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Debian preseed.cfg/automatic install setup not detecting hard disks
I'm trying to build a Debian automatic install set up using a preseed.cfg file loaded into a client by PXE. The host and client are both Virtual Box VM's.
Everything goes smoothly on the client ...
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How can I create an encrypted, file-system–agnostic, mountable volume?
At work, we have an iMac (running OS X) that shares a partitioned hard drive over the network. I'd like to back up to my partition from my Linux machine. I've attempted connecting via cifs, then ...
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Encrypted USB 2.5“ to unencrypted internal 3.5” hard drive copy speed
I am moving data from an external USB 2.5" hard drive (encrypted with cryptsetup) to an unencrypted internal 1TB 3.5" hard drive on a GNU/Linux quad-core headless server with 2GB RAM, using Midnight ...
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Fedora installer doesn't see my Windows 7 partitions
I tried to install Fedora 17 on the same disk I have Windows 7. First I got the message, that there are no free space to create partition, even in Windows part of disk was marked as unallocated.
I ...
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Toshiba Drive Sleeping - SDPARM
My toshiba 1tb external keeps going to sleep and I can't seem to locate anything that resembles a standby parameter. Does anyone know a way to get this drive to quit sleeping? Here is the output of ...
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LVM keeping harddisk awake?
I have a Lenovo W530 running Arch with kernel 3.79 (for bumblebee) and laptop-mode is configured properly and running. It has one SSD (sdb) and one harddisk (sdb). The sdb disk has two lvm-volumes: ...
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Local disc copy at 10MB/s! What could be the problem?
I am running a Debian 6.0.6 (before you ask). I have a regular desktop computer, nothing fancy... but when I copy a file using nautilus I am getting 10MB/s copy speed and the system is completely ...
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Bad superblock after server crash
My server (CentOS 6) crashed, and it now kernel panics on boot. It's currently using a mdadm RAID1 array with two 1TB drives.
vg_server2422-LogVol01 is /
vg_server2422-LogVol00 is Swap
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Mount Freecom Classic SL Network Drive (NDAS) in Ubuntu 11.10
Both the Network Drive and the Ubuntu machine are connected by Ethernet to a Linksys WRT54GL router (192.168.1.1).
To access the Network Drive in Windows, I installed the NDAS software and mounted ...
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How can I prevent smartd from reporting that it cannot find a disk?
I have smartd monitoring my hard drives. It works fine generally, but the following error window has been consistently popping up every 24 hours.
This email was generated by the smartd daemon running ...
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New harddrive does not show up in /dev
I am trying to add a second (unformatted) IDE hard drive to a QNX 6.4.1 VM (hosted through vmware's vSphere). Unfortunately, there is no entry for the drive in /dev (I think this is called an ...
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Mint 14 does not detect my first hard disk
I have two hardisks installed in my machine :
Samsung SSD PM830 SATA : 128 Gb
ST9500423AS ATA : 500 Gb
When I start Mint installer, it only showed me the 500Gb harddisk.So I partitioned it into ...
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What changed in Linux kernel (2.6.22) that gives hdparm support for power-on in standby?
Hdparm man page lists for parameter -s:
Enable/disable the power-on in standby feature, if supported by
the drive. VERY DANGEROUS. Do not use unless you are abso-
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Negative hdd usage. Available is larger than fullsize
Having issues with space accounting of lvm volume. 23G is available. But the full size of the partition is 20G. (So, it shows "-4.1G used" 0_O)
> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% ...
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Hard drives goes missing until reboot - what can be the cause?
I am struggling here. My end goal is assembling a RAID-6 array on my PC, but time and again, the assemble doesn't complete (and cat /proc/mdstat shows that one drive dropped away). This now happened ...
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Discovering EMC PowerPath LUNs and creating partitions on Solaris
I have to work with EMC PowerPath disks/LUNs. I find them in the /dev/dsk/ directory under names such as emcpower0a, emcpower0b, …, emcpower0z, emcpower1a, …
Here are my points of confusion:
Inside ...
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Linux 3.5 ext4 slow hdd performance?
This is a bit of a general question.
I have just installed Mint Linux 14.1, root is ext4 and rest are NTFS (dual boot).
I'm using a laptop, and I have always suffered from that annoying hdd ...
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RAID Drivers and Support for an AMD SB950 Chip?
I have an Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2 motherboard which uses the AMD SB950 chipset to create a fakeRAID array (setup for RAID 5 in my case). It is recognized as a RAID array in Windows after install of ...
