Forum: Storage & Hardrives
November 23rd 12, 03:08 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,862
New SSD to replace the 160G harddrive
Most image backup software titles have the "Hardware Independent Restore" feature, i.e. patching of restored Windows image to be runnable on a new HW.
You can also do this manually, but this is a...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
December 31st 10, 02:47 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,803
passThrough mini filter driver
Can you ask on Windows kernel forums, not on comp.arch.storage?
--
Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
http://www.storagecraft.com
"srj" wrote in...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
December 13th 10, 10:20 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,911
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
November 25th 10, 03:47 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,911
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
September 10th 10, 10:40 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,088
Flash Drive Related (loading/unloading)
So, I want to know the detail working of Flash Drive(Pen
Drive) i.e when we insert/remove it into/from a particular port, how
drivers get loaded/unloaded.
Read:
a) USB spec, including...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
May 12th 10, 06:16 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 1
Views: 952
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
February 12th 10, 09:38 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,462
Disk optimization for multithreaded app.
mistaken about that. It might have been related to the appearance of
high-water marking if that wasn't present in the earliest versions
NTFS was always supporting ValidDataLength _on...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
February 11th 10, 10:43 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,462
Disk optimization for multithreaded app.
Unix-style system-wide sync calls are a fourth (but I don't think
Windows offers them).
It does, FlushFileBuffers is fsync().
If you open the volume - like \\.\c: and do FlushFileBuffers on...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
February 10th 10, 11:50 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,462
Disk optimization for multithreaded app.
If I recall correctly, NT and its descendants (unlike Unix) flush dirty
data to disk when a file is closed and report any error then.
No.
Nothing occurs when the file is closed. Flushes go...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
October 30th 09, 10:32 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,050
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
October 29th 09, 03:20 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,050
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
October 28th 09, 10:47 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,050
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
September 27th 09, 12:52 AM Posted to comp.sys.laptops,comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 9
Views: 906
Replacing an OEM Mobo...
Should that give me a greater sense of security?
Surely yes.
--
Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
http://www.storagecraft.com
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
September 26th 09, 08:43 PM Posted to comp.sys.laptops,comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 9
Views: 906
Replacing an OEM Mobo...
This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives 128GB
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Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
http://www.storagecraft.com
"Jimmy Roberts"...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
September 21st 09, 06:47 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 8
Views: 890
RAID level for personal archival?
I'm building a RAID solution for personal archiving (general large
things like raw photos, full disk backups, DVD rips, that sort of
thing). I picked up a 7-disk NAS tower that I'm filling with...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
June 5th 09, 09:35 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 2
Views: 761
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
June 2nd 09, 08:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin,24hoursupport.helpdesk,comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,375
deleted mbr,boot sector
I would scan the whole disk using some tool (dd+grep in Linux or such) to find some signature of the boot sector - "FAT" or "NTFS" or "MSDOS" (forgot what one is actually used).
Then look at the...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
May 24th 09, 09:36 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,734
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
May 22nd 09, 09:40 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 1
Views: 744
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
May 21st 09, 09:12 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,734
SATA optical drive problems with DMA/PIO transfer
There is a software device made in Russia (PC-3000) for repairing hard
drives. It comes with a PCI card that allows the user to gain control
over the hard drive independently of the OS.
The PCI...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
May 19th 09, 01:21 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,734
SATA optical drive problems with DMA/PIO transfer
According to the specs on my Silicon Image Si3112 SATA controller, it
supports PIO modes 0 to 4, mdma 0 to 2 and UDMA 0 to 5.
The whole PIO/DMA thing has 2 meanings:
a) data rate and command set...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 24th 09, 12:41 PM Posted to comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,140
Unimpressive performance of large MD raid
NTFS unsafe in case of power loss?
User data is not protected by the journaling.
You missed something, we're not talking about FAT here (which is faster than NTFS)...
Depends on scenario. With...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 11th 09, 10:47 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,734
SATA optical drive problems with DMA/PIO transfer
Both the Silicon Image configuration utility and Nero report the drive
in PIO4 mode.
Are you sure that the terms "PIO" and "UDMA" apply to non-standard (i.e. not register-compatible with the old...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 9th 09, 10:13 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 8
Views: 957
Out-of-order writing by disk drives
writes. Journaling file systems need guarantees about the order of
journal writes as well as journal writes relative to the writes the
journal entries describe.
Usually, the update is first...
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Forum: Storage & Hardrives
April 9th 09, 07:05 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
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Replies: 8
Views: 957
Out-of-order writing by disk drives
been the focus of my comment: NTFS does attempt to control ordering, at
least for critical metadata updates, even with write-back caching
enabled, but I think only on drives that support the...
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