Does anyone know where I can get a 5.25 inch floppy drive? My wife has
some floppies that have her genealogy on them and no way to read
them...thanks...Jerry

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>   1. Re: solid state drives (Jeremy)
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> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:04:00 -0500
> From: Jeremy <tclug at lizakowski.com>
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] solid state drives
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> Shopping Cart to Mailbox:
> 4200rpm:  $49.99
> SSD: $999.99
>
>
> On Friday 25 July 2008 4:05:35 pm David Alanis wrote:
>> Quoting Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu>:
>> > On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, David Alanis wrote:
>> >> This months Linux Journal has a good article on solid state drives and
>> >> they talk about their comparison against a 4200 RPM 1.8 drive.
>> >
>> > Are 4200 RPM 1.8" drives used in notebooks?
>> >
>> > So what did they find?  Was SSD faster than HDD?
>>
>> The tests were done on a Laptop - Fujitsu P1610 Intel 1.2GHz ULV Core
>> Solo with 1GB RAM. Also, pointed out that it will vary depending on
>> the OS and packages of course. You will have to buy the mag to read
>> the complete article :)
>>
>> I have to get going here but the results are as follows:
>>
>> Grub to login
>> 4200rpm: 50sec.
>> SSD: 34sec.
>>
>> Login to Desktop
>> 4200rpm: 59sec.
>> SSD: 23sec.
>>
>> Untar Kernel 2.6.22
>> 4200rpm: 66sec.
>> SSD: 53sec.
>>
>> Suspend to Disk
>> 4200rpm: 75sec.
>> SSD: 50sec.
>>
>> Grub to Resume
>> 4200rpm: 83sec.
>> SSD: 38sec.
>>
>> David
>>
>> >> Does anyone own or have used a SSD?
>> >
>> > Not me.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:42:19 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu>
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] solid state drives
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> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Jeremy wrote:
>
>> Shopping Cart to Mailbox:
>> 4200rpm:  $49.99
>> SSD: $999.99
>
>
> No doubt that price will be divebombing fast (I think they are already
> mostly in the $700-$800 range at 64GB).
>
> Someone on another list answered this for me:
>
>
>>> On NewEgg.com, most of the 64GB SSD drives are in the $700-$800 range,
>>> but there's this one at $285:
>>>
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208432
>>>
>>> So what's wrong with that one?!  ;-)
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>> It's using slower and shorter-lived multi-level cell (MLC) Flash rather
>> than the much more expensive, faster, and longer-lived single-level cell
>> (SLC) Flash. The "-M" at the end of the product name gives it away:
>>
>> http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/ModDetail.asp?ModNo=177
>>
>> Transcend's own data lists the MLC version as 116 MB/sec read, 43 MB/sec
>> write vs. 119 MB/sec read, 64 MB/sec writes for the SLC Flash. They do
>> not list the estimated life span in I/O operations for the two types but
>> they do note that the SLC version is recommended for OS installation:
>>
>> http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/ModDetail.asp?ModNo=177&SpNo=3&LangNo=0
>
>
> Can't wait for those 64GB SLC SSD drives to drop to about $100.  That will
> be nice.  My guess is that it will take 2 years.
>
> Mike
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:12:45 -0500
> From: "Mark Mitchell" <mark.russel.mitchell at gmail.com>
> Subject: [tclug-list] nfs error
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> Debian Etch, brand new install.  All I've done to it since out of the
> box state is change the IP to static, and add a drive.
>
> Every time I start '/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server', I get 'nfsd:
> peername failed (err 107)'.
>
> Googling this error doesn't bring up anything useful.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:31:41 -0500
> From: "Mark Mitchell" <mark.russel.mitchell at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] nfs error
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Mark Mitchell
> <mark.russel.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Debian Etch, brand new install.  All I've done to it since out of the
>> box state is change the IP to static, and add a drive.
>>
>> Every time I start '/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server', I get 'nfsd:
>> peername failed (err 107)'.
>>
>> Googling this error doesn't bring up anything useful.
>>
> With some help from #debian on irc.debian.org, I figured it out.
>
> The problem was that I had a client on the network still trying to
> connect to the original share on this machine.  Once I re-setup the
> shares on the server, and remounted the client's shares, everything
> was fine.
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:47:00 -0500
> From: Dave Sherohman <dave at sherohman.org>
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] solid state drives
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 04:53:34PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, David Alanis wrote:
>> > Grub to login
>> > 4200rpm: 50sec.
>> > SSD: 34sec.
>> >
>> > Login to Desktop
>> > 4200rpm: 59sec.
>> > SSD: 23sec.
>> >
>> > Untar Kernel 2.6.22
>> > 4200rpm: 66sec.
>> > SSD: 53sec.
>> >
>> > Suspend to Disk
>> > 4200rpm: 75sec.
>> > SSD: 50sec.
>> >
>> > Grub to Resume
>> > 4200rpm: 83sec.
>> > SSD: 38sec.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for sharing that, David.  That is interesting information.
>> Apparently, the 4200 RPM HDD took 50% or more time than the SSD on every
>> job but only 25% longer on "untar kernel," for some reason.
>
> Is the untarring a straight read of an uncompressed tarball or was the
> test run on a compressed kernel?  I assume the latter (that seems to be
> the norm), in which case the "untar kernel" test would have a
> significantly higher proportion of CPU-dependent work than the other
> tests, reducing the relative impact of data transfer speeds.
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