Yeah, its a shame the silicon team worked so closely with the morphing team. A generic Crusoe would be really cool, not necessarily for applications where emulating multiple architectures per second would be demanded though.
Well, it needs power to keep the memory valid, and it doesn't have the option of "spinning down" to save power or even turn off. And the capacity would comparatively suck as would costs.
I suggest you download the drive adjustment tool I linked to in the other DTLA go bad article and set accoustic thingy to quiet (my guess letting the heads settle more before writing) and disable the write cache on drives that get written to heavily before your system shuts down.
And when a drive gets a block error just back it up and do the eras disk thing and see how it turns out.
Its a messed up problem, but it seems quite survivable. I've been hit by it several times before I did these adjustments, and I haven't been up long enough to tell if its working well now. But its worht a shot me thinks.
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Well, I'm getting them there bad block sounds again. Out of the blue after being up for over two days. So it isn't a shutdown/writecache thing for me this time around.
Maybe the accoustic management mode gives the head more settle time, I'll try that sometime... Coupled with disabled write caching on the boot drive. Now to back up and restore the drive before those BLERs become unrecoverable.
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Even the smaller deskstars are affected. Both of my 30G units grumble from time to time.
They briefly made a quad-PPC system.
Wouldn't a quad-PPC based Palm be cool?
Until the batteries catch fire anyways...
BeOS is not dead yet.
Its dead pal. Minimal software base, a mess of cool concepts, parent companies dying/unintrested in primary product.
If the Amigas lingering death is any example, you're in for a painful/slow ride.
And yet, despite these problems, PS1 effectively handed Nintendo their own testicles in a jar.
And yet I have an N64 under my TV and a mock and laugh at the big jagged squares dancing about on PS1 games. And I continue to laugh at the PS2.
I never touch self-extracting archives for obvious reasons.
Good luck. Nintendo has no plans of making Game Cube anything other than a game machine, and took several stepa to ensure it.
And how hard is it to type "zcat blah.iso | cdrecord" when you have it?
Not hard at all, just doesn't do much for people in Windows who actually need CD images to install it though.
I don't recall it. Unfourtunately Exploratorium seems to be loosing its cool factor.
Hey, cool. In IE it brings up a web history list, this'll save me alot of time, THANKS!
Hell, I even wrote one. In ARexx! If you have an Amiga emulation that needs to read barcodes you know who to ask now. ;-)
I wish I could pull that off...
"Mommy, theres glowing blue slime on my keyboard again!"
Yeah, its a shame the silicon team worked so closely with the morphing team. A generic Crusoe would be really cool, not necessarily for applications where emulating multiple architectures per second would be demanded though.
Your choice I guess...
Is this really mechanical? In my case its nothing a lowlevel format can't (temporarily at least) fix.
Sorry, I picked this drive because it was IBM, not because of the size. My luck I got two of them and I have no other comparable drives handy...
And when a drive gets a block error just back it up and do the eras disk thing and see how it turns out.
Its a messed up problem, but it seems quite survivable. I've been hit by it several times before I did these adjustments, and I haven't been up long enough to tell if its working well now. But its worht a shot me thinks.
Not to say you can find an example of this...
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On my system the decompression CPU time is negligible.
I look forward to hearing about the upgrade that includes .ogg support and .mp3 "rights management" features. :-)
Sorry pal, CDs are encoded at 1378.125Kb/s.
Fire Wire has potential. USB is the pits though.
With all due respect, the sky has fallen on me several times. Its all wet and stuff... :-)
Maybe the accoustic management mode gives the head more settle time, I'll try that sometime... Coupled with disabled write caching on the boot drive. Now to back up and restore the drive before those BLERs become unrecoverable.