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<0> i got an old thinkpad t22, but upon starting it up, after the bios post but before starting x, it just displays as 640x480 in the center of the lcd with about 5 cm border around it? anybody an idea?
<1> When I just give it the image and the floppy drive, it takes upwards of 80s to write out the image
<1> When I specify the block size to be 1474560 and one block, it writes it in 25s
<1> I bring this up because I can't quite figure out why
<2> PayphoneEd: try with block size 18k...
<3> bbiab. time to make some breakfast.
<4> you know.. cat is equivalent to dd if you don't use any options..
<4> except for tape drives I suppose
<1> Blis***: What effect will that have?
<4> I ***ume newer ones are more forgiving, but I dont have newer ones
<2> PayphoneEd: try...
<1> Blis***: 34s
<4> Quiznos does Quznos read all logs or just what you have said?
<2> PayphoneEd: that looks good. Now try with 36k.
<2> overrider: thats how it is configured in the BIOS.
<1> 26s
<1> Which is on the order of writing it with a block size equal to the floppy disk
<2> PayphoneEd: now consider researching why 18k and especially 36k are special numbers for floppies.
<1> I don't remember anything about them in the article about floppies on Wikipedia
<0> Blis***, there is an option about screen expansion, but enabling that gives me a stretched 640x480, larger; but still about 2 cm on each side space
<1> overrider: Laptop LCD panels typically have one resolution
<2> PayphoneEd: 18k is 36x512 and 36k is 72x512 and 512 is the size of a sector.
<1> Anything smaller will appear in a bordered box
<4> overrider if you want linux to display at a different res during startup, look into the vga= option or a framebuffer console
<1> Blis***: Ah.
<1> And 1474560 is the size of the disk, so the effect is similar, I ***ume?
<2> PayphoneEd: well the size of a disk is overkill.
<4> I wonder if there's a number in there that would be more efficent then 1474560
<4> 1.4 mb of ram is nothing these days
<1> Blis***: I suppose so, but it's how I found the trick originally
<1> Though remembering 36k is easier than remembering 1474560
<4> PayphoneEd 1440k
<4> PayphoneEd 1440K *
<5> what does 1220 k give you
<4> less?
<1> Blis***, Kevin`: Thanks
<1> Splinter2: Wouldn't that be for a 5.25" diskette?
<5> 2 sides of a 1440
<4> 1220<1440
<5> don't think thats how it's split though
<1> I know that depending on your hardware you can write quite a bit more to the diskettes
<4> i'd ***ume it would be split at 720
<4> PayphoneEd never works too well for me, except very slightly more
<4> floppies really aren't bieng developed much
<1> I know with Ryoko I can write that "Microsoft format"
<5> floppies , only in a time of need
<1> MDF or something like that
<4> google says it's 1720k
<4> mine can do that
<1> Yeah
<1> I think that was a rare bit of research by MS
<1> Because that size seems to work in almost every FDD
<4> it's probably just different spacing
<1> That info IS in the Wikipedia article, or at least linked to from it
<1> I just don't feel like looking it up
<1> I do know that USB FDDs are harder to manage anything but 1440
<1> 720 works but is troublesome
<4> manufactueres ***ume you won't need to
<1> I work with old computers, I love them
<1> So naturally, I need to
<5> PayphoneEd how old ?
<1> Splinter2: My oldest, Komugi, is from 1987
<1> Toshiba T1200
<1> Intel i80C86 @ 9.54MHz
<1> 1MB RAM, 20MB HDD
<1> I have Mahoro next to me, running Sun Solaris 7 which I procured yesterday
<1> She's not turned on at the moment but it's installed which is more than usual for my experimental systems
<6> yo!
<5> your bringing back a lot of memories
<6> sup!?
<6> ultra somnia, ultra memorias, arbor sacra, mala dulcem, maturum ferens
<6> hey lo_tek
<7> i have a old cyrix.. it relies on a switch to power ON/Off.I can't shut it down and PowerOff. I have to press the switch..is there a way to hook up the reset switch instead and toggle it on and off?
<6> wtf is a cyrix?
<1> Splinter2: And I'm only 21
<7> processor..ancient
<8> morning...
<1> They were a processor company
<1> They made more than one processor
<9> gghoul, you are saying the shutdown command just sort of go to a "now power off your pc...' state.
<9> ?
<10> Does anyone know of a good opensource and free small-mid business backup software?
<7> Dr_Willis: exactly
<1> It's probably not ATX
<1> So APM isn't capable of powering the system down automatically
<9> gghoul, thats a bios issue i belive.. and a feature that was not common untill..hmm.. a few yrs back.
<9> bios/mb/apm :P
<7> yes it's not a ATX cabinet..though it has APM in the bios
<6> hey gufymike
<1> Yeah, if it's not an ATX PSU then APM can't shut it down automatically
<9> i got an old ThinkNIC mini-pc - its using a Cyrix 333 or somthing.
<11> Quentusrex: why not just set up incremental backups with tar/rsync/whatever... or do you need something extra the basic tools do not provide?
<1> But that's one thing I miss about modern computers... the serious lack of reset buttons
<10> I have 4 linux database/webservers and 9 workstations that all run linux
<10> and I have 5-6 windows machines that all need to be backedup
<7> PayphoneEd: does the SMPS matter? can i change my SMPS..would that solve the problem..how does the SMPS get a signal from the mobo?
<6> PayphoneEd: tearing the cord out of the wall usually helps
<6> :P
<10> I don't know of a good backup solution for this that doesn't require a lot of scripting on my part.
<1> gghoul: SMPS?
<7> PayphoneEd: power supply - switch mode power supply
<11> Quentusrex: ah. heterogenous environment. **** out of luck with *nix tools then ;) nope, sorry
<1> I've never read into the ATX, APM or ACPI specifications
<11> PayphoneEd: do not touch acpi, it's spaghetti from hell :)
<1> I don't know how they can cut the power like that
<1> mord: Been there
<11> PayphoneEd: if i ever have to fix a dsdt again i swear i'm going to strangle a kitten
<1> I extracted Piyoko's ACPI tables to try and change it's IRQ routing (They stuck everything on IRQ11)
<1> I gave up _very_ shortly after
<1> I'd still like to reduce the abhorrent load on IRQ11, though
<11> PayphoneEd: has it proved to be a bottleneck somehow? (if it works, dont touch it... ;)
<7> could someone explain how a computer power-off's? how does the power turn off from the power-supply..is there a wire or something run from the power-supply to mobo
<1> mord: Occasionally I'll get "Too much work for IRQ11"
<11> PayphoneEd: ouch
<4> gghoul yes, there is
<1> But that's really rare now
<1> Lemme get that part of /proc/interrupts
<1> This WILL hurt you inside when you read it
<1> So be careful
<1> 11: 98068513 XT-PIC yenta, yenta, ehci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2, ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb4, ehci_hcd:usb5, ohci_hcd:usb6, ALI 5451, pcmcia0.0
<11> PayphoneEd: it's ok i already have heartburn
<11> omg
<4> gghoul there's also an always on power source on some other pins, so the computer can turn itself on..
<12> damn that bytes nastily
<1> It does work
<11> PayphoneEd: ****load of stuff there
<1> Yeah
<12> i lke the "yenta yenta" bit tho
<1> Like I said, EVERYTHING is on IRQ11
<12> that's funi
<11> :/
<12> and what are Yentas?
<11> pcmcia controllers
<12> kk
<1> I think Toshiba kinda slacked off on programming the ACPI tables for Piyoko
<12> chatterboxen?
<11> or actually a pcmcia controller standard sort of thing
<12> well, that definately qualifies as irq-sharing
<12> good thing your kernel has that code
<11> PayphoneEd: many tables are broken because they're compiled with a broken ms compiler. i had to extract, fix and recompile (with intel) mine on my acer 5002wlmi
<1> Heh
<1> mord: Ouch... Microsoft damage
<1> Kinda like any computer with Windows on it
<12> mord are you workin on a reflashable bios?
<12> i wish i had a bios like that
<1> lol
<1> Quiznos: EPROM BIOS?
<12> i duno what i have here and i dont wanna mess with it at all
<11> Quiznos: you can feed the kernel a custom dsdt and it will remap for you
<12> it works
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