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Prevent data corruption on ext4/Linux drive on power loss

I have some embedded boards running American Megatrends bios with embedded linux as the OS. The problem I have is that the industrial flash ide's will be corrupted on power loss. I have them formatted as ext4. Whenever this happens, I can usually…
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find out if disk is IDE or SATA

I need to find out if a disk is IDE or SATA (or anything else, maybe). I know that the device is /dev/sda, so I think it's SATA, but I don't know if I can be sure just by the name. I tried looking at dmesg and it always says "SCSI", but I'm sure…
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Is it possible to pass through a IDE tape drive to a virtual machine?

My department does conversions for people who bought our software to get their data out of their old system and in to our system. Often they will be running odd or archaic systems that the only way to get the data to us is a tape backup. Currently…
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IDE compatability with SATA image

We had an old CNC machine's hard-drive fail recently. The hard-drive is an old 1275MB IDE (Seagate) and there were defiantly bad sectors on it. I was able to image the contents of the drive onto a drive in my computer before it became completely…
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Temporary external mounting of 3.5" SATA/IDE drives

What do you use for temporarily externally mounting 3.5" SATA and IDE hard drives? When I'm in the field and just have a laptop with me, I'd like to be able to mount a client's drive to my laptop for data recovery, etc. Is a separate USB enclosure…
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What is the best hard drive type for a small file server?

I have a fairly speedy computer that I'd like to use as a file server. The motherboard has IDE and SCSI ports. What is the best hard drive type to use? (IDE/SATA/SCSI, etc) Would it be smart to get a SATA card to run drives? Usage: 15 users,…
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Disk renaming udev rule

I have two separate controllers, SATA and PATA. I would like to rename drives connected to the PATA to hd[a-z], and their partitions to hd[a-z][0-9]. # udevadm info -a -p /sys/block/sdd [...] looking at device…
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ATAPI Event 11 "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2."

This is in the System Event log (Windows Server 2008) ATAPI Event 11 "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2." It is probably a hardware problem, but I'm not sure how to determine that for sure. The machine still works most…
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Can I prevent a Linux server from locking up/spewing console errors when a hard drive fails?

I have a Linux server (CentOS 5.5) that has two identical IDE hard drives. I've used software RAID (mdadm) to create mirrors for each filesystem, so that either hard drive could fail and no data would be lost. Today one of my hard drives failed. The…
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Flex puts _docs_ folder into the bin. Can that be stopped?

I started using Flex Builder 3 only recently. There is a behavior I want to change. Flex apparently looks for folders that have underscore in front of their names inside the libraries on the project path, and transfers them to the bin directory.…
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How to determine disk connection type in Linux

So this might be an obvious question, but I am managing several servers over a network and I would like to be able to find out what type of connector each server is using (i.e. SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc...) without powering off the machine and looking…
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How to migrate from ide to virtio in RHEL 6.5 KVM guest with LVMs

I want to migrate a IDE-using, LVM-based KVM guest running RHEL 6.5. I found this steps in this page: 1) Run virsh edit . From there, edit the config file and adjust all lines of so they look like this
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After Mavericks upgrade problems with PHPStorm

I upgraded to Mac OS Mavericks and since then my PHPStorm caused problems. During typing inside the editor the CPU goes up to 400% and the typing lags. I didn't know what to do or what the reason is. So I reinstalled Mavericks. On a clean…
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RAID 1 after install and two controllers

I have question regarding RAID 1. Can I setup software RAID 1 after having installed the first drive and setup ubuntu 12? I know that during server install and partitioning I can select RAID and setup then, but what I am not clear on is how in the…
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Possible causes of IDE port controller errors?

I have a machine that has had a fairly long term problem that is rather erratic. It might be fine for weeks then go through periods where the problem is there almost all the time. The problem is that I get controller errors for the secondary IDE…
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