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Having 2 docking bays and 2 thinkpads allows you to try all combinations. Does the working laptop see drives in both systems? Interesting stuff is often reported by 'dmesg |tail' or 'fdisk -l'

@business_kid, Playing? Well, that is flat out inappropriate. And who is *we*? Pretty sure? Seriously, this is one of my favorites: "Only 'fools' are positive." Come on. You are giving up too easily. The suggestion made is of no help, because the motherboard replacement isn't from the manufacturer. And the machine is way beyond warranty. I am inclined to believe at this juncture that the bios, now downgraded to...

Hi all, Im using openSUSE 11.2. Im looking forward to buy a Logitech webcam. Which of them is good? TiA

Quote: Originally Posted by abefroman Yes, but how does Raid 5 affect the write performance? You are thinking too much into it. You are comparing two different levels that are completely different. One is mirroring and the other is striping. Striping increases bandwidth while mirroring does not. Of course RAID-5 will have better write performance. Again bandwidth has nothing to do with total performance. It is the latency that affects...

Hi, You could look at WebCams in ' Device ' section of Slackware-Links ' for some possible help.

See here (chapter 7): http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ To save time, I start with the generic kernel and leave things as modules that I probably won't need, or turn them off if I know I won't need them. Modules that are needed for accessing the HDD (ahci or sata and filesystem) should be built-in or you will need to use an initrd. Some tips from me: 1) search the output of 'dmesg' for the following: not found no error take action...

I've used ntfs-3g for some time without any problems. The project has only started in 2006, as opposed to linux-ntfs which has been around since 2000. Having said that, I should point out that when I started using it, the kernel ntfs driver (which is part of linux-ntfs) was considered unsafe for writing and mounted read-only by default. It appears as though that may have changed in more recent versions. ntfs-3g works in user space using...

Do you have it... You should be able to flash the BIOS with an older version. If you have any reasonable luck, there is a copy out there somewhere waiting for you to google. We are all assuming that the BIOS is the critical variant. Have you tried a few linux live-cds with built-in media support, PCLinuxOS, Mint, to hear if there is any difference?

There is no problem with TRUE hardware raid (no driver required). The problem is that virtually all the motherboard raid and most sub $300(?) raid cards are fake raid(just google it). In the long run you are usually better off using soft raid rather than fake raid. Raid0 does give you a significant speed increase (well below 2X) but when it does fail(not if) there is no redundancy. As long as you understand this and back up anything that is...

Quote: Originally Posted by mostlyharmless When you set up the VM, you'll specify the harddisk to use. You should only specify the installation disk, not the RAID array. Before you do that, you'd have to boot into Windows the regular way and remove that RAID array and driver from your Windows install so that it is seen as a foreigh partition, just like your Linux ones. But this would be safer of course. Yeah, I definitely want teh...