unsupported sector size 520

so i picked up a batch of these 146gb (Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L146 CLAR146 Rev: R58A) FC-AL drives from a fire sale. i pop it into the machine when i notice this in dmesg: [ 86.717949] Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L146 CLAR146 Rev: R58A [ 86.717970] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 [ 86.720959] sdb : … Read More

sun blade 2000 specs

here are some numbers for the sun blade 2k: # cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+) fpu : UltraSparc III+ integrated FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 5 prom : 4.5.21 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 2 ncpus active : 2 D$ parity tl1 : 0 I$ parity tl1 : 0 Cpu0Bogo … Read More

gentoo + sun blade 2000 = first dmesg

# dmesg [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.5.21 2003/02/24 17:23 [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.16.60 (root@livecd) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1)) #2 Fri Dec 26 01:06:42 EST 2008 [ 0.000000] ARCH: SUN4U [ 0.000000] Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:36:12:53 [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 1047627 [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 1047627 pages, LIFO batch:15 … Read More

kernel compile issues on sparc64 in gentoo

weird error: error: -m64 is not supported by this configuration during a: make image modules_install on a kernel. all this on sparc64 gentoo. easy fix: instead of make && make image modules_install use : make CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu- && CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu- make image modules_install fixed it for me

sun blade 2000 + gentoo = kernel work

# uname -a Linux venus 2.6.16.60 #3 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 28 23:49:18 EST 2008 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+) GNU/Linux i have not yet gone to a newer kernel since i wanted to refine this one first. this one is =vanilla-sources-2.6.16.60 here is the .config file in text mode. i will post all … Read More

little mass list rename script

quick and dirty script to rename *.jpg in one folder to poa_xxx.jpg numerically yes there is a way to do this in a shorter and cleaner matter. but i was tired and just wanted to get it done. #/bin/bash n=1 for f in *.jpg do if [ $n -le 9 ]; then mv “$f” “poa_000$n.jpg” … Read More