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I've been struggling with a problem with an external hard drive for nearly three weeks. It is a 6TB drive with USB 2.0 and eSATA interfaces. It is my first eSata drive, I have only one computer with an eSATA port, and I have only one eSATA cable. It is by a major manufacturer and I got it from a reputable dealer. I use it (at least try to) on eSATA (USB 2 is too slow for 6TB).
The first one had problems - it would get to about 2.19TB and then slow to a crawl. At first it would transfer at 80-120MB/sec, but then it would drop down to under 4MB/sec. I ran their diagnostics and it locked up at about 77%. I got a replacement. It had the same problem, except that this time the diagnostics locked up at about 74%.
I got a third one, and it has problems. It passed the diagnostics 100%. But it drops down to under 3MB/sec for a while and then speed up. It did that a few times, then it dropped the speed down, and did not speed back up. This occurred a lot earlier than the 2.19TB where the problem occurred on the other two.
I've tried copying from a different disk to this one and writing to it from memory only - same problem either way.
I don't have another computer with an eSATA port or cable to test those.
I hooked it up to USB 2.0, and it is slow, but at least consistent. But USB 2 won't give the performance needed for the application.
One thing about the problem at 2.19TB - it has 512-byte clusters and 2^32 clusters is 2.199TB, so I have wondered if there is a design flaw with the eSATA interface when it gets to 2^32 clusters.
The seller will not take back computer equipment that has been opened. The maker thinks it is a "system problem".
So, where is this problem likely to be:
On List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte, the fifth reference there is a problem accessing; when I open the page it gives me a 505 error. Is there any way I can gain access to the page? The URL is at [2]. Albacore ( talk) 16:24, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
They say that gifs only can have 256 colors... but I've seen images that have broke that law... they've cheated, so my question is. How there are images (animated gifs) that have 16,777,216 colors (Maybe they can have alpha channel??) and how do I make one?? 190.84.182.165 ( talk) 17:34, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I need to write something such that it curves around, it'll have to be saved as part of a background image for a 3D modeling program so just for the sake of simplicity I was hoping to save it in paint, but of course it would likely have to be copied into there from somewhere else first.
So, any thoughts on where I might be able to find a program that can curve writing around to follow a set line?
148.197.81.179 ( talk) 18:48, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I am rather new to Openoffice, although somewhat familiar with Word. I was wondering alignment when using enumerations within tables. I had something like this in mind:
blablablabla
1. some item and then some more
---which does not fit on one line
but I get:
blablablabla
1.--------some item and then some more
which does not fit on one line.
How can I change this? I checked a lot of properties of tables and enumerations. I even found an example in some template just the way I want it, but I cannot figure out what setting I should change?
Many thanks, Evilbu ( talk) 20:25, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
is it possible maybe in c/c# (i know i can zip with the password but i want the folder to appear to be a normal folder). Thanx! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.0.122.9 ( talk) 21:55, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I have a samsung lcd monitor
and got a few questions about it
when you bring up the system menu and go to information part of it itll say its current resolution refresh rate like this 1920x1080 67.5khz 60 hz PP or the latter could be NP so I wanna know what these two letters stand for and mean and what the difference is any one know??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.21.51 ( talk) 22:30, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
i dont think it has anything to do with that, cos then when you change the resolution to something that isnt its native say to 720p it changes that to NP. im just curious — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.3.109 ( talk) 02:49, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
I've just come across some URLs that are hundreds of thousands of characters long (>700k) that almost crash firefox. Why could this ever be necessary? They can be found by enlarging the images on this page and then viewing the image (obviously I'm not going to copy one here). They all start with "data:image/png;base64," rather than http - what does that mean? Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 23:48, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
This does not answer your question, but . . . it's clear that some people want long URLs. -- Hoary ( talk) 14:38, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
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I've been struggling with a problem with an external hard drive for nearly three weeks. It is a 6TB drive with USB 2.0 and eSATA interfaces. It is my first eSata drive, I have only one computer with an eSATA port, and I have only one eSATA cable. It is by a major manufacturer and I got it from a reputable dealer. I use it (at least try to) on eSATA (USB 2 is too slow for 6TB).
The first one had problems - it would get to about 2.19TB and then slow to a crawl. At first it would transfer at 80-120MB/sec, but then it would drop down to under 4MB/sec. I ran their diagnostics and it locked up at about 77%. I got a replacement. It had the same problem, except that this time the diagnostics locked up at about 74%.
I got a third one, and it has problems. It passed the diagnostics 100%. But it drops down to under 3MB/sec for a while and then speed up. It did that a few times, then it dropped the speed down, and did not speed back up. This occurred a lot earlier than the 2.19TB where the problem occurred on the other two.
I've tried copying from a different disk to this one and writing to it from memory only - same problem either way.
I don't have another computer with an eSATA port or cable to test those.
I hooked it up to USB 2.0, and it is slow, but at least consistent. But USB 2 won't give the performance needed for the application.
One thing about the problem at 2.19TB - it has 512-byte clusters and 2^32 clusters is 2.199TB, so I have wondered if there is a design flaw with the eSATA interface when it gets to 2^32 clusters.
The seller will not take back computer equipment that has been opened. The maker thinks it is a "system problem".
So, where is this problem likely to be:
On List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte, the fifth reference there is a problem accessing; when I open the page it gives me a 505 error. Is there any way I can gain access to the page? The URL is at [2]. Albacore ( talk) 16:24, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
They say that gifs only can have 256 colors... but I've seen images that have broke that law... they've cheated, so my question is. How there are images (animated gifs) that have 16,777,216 colors (Maybe they can have alpha channel??) and how do I make one?? 190.84.182.165 ( talk) 17:34, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I need to write something such that it curves around, it'll have to be saved as part of a background image for a 3D modeling program so just for the sake of simplicity I was hoping to save it in paint, but of course it would likely have to be copied into there from somewhere else first.
So, any thoughts on where I might be able to find a program that can curve writing around to follow a set line?
148.197.81.179 ( talk) 18:48, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I am rather new to Openoffice, although somewhat familiar with Word. I was wondering alignment when using enumerations within tables. I had something like this in mind:
blablablabla
1. some item and then some more
---which does not fit on one line
but I get:
blablablabla
1.--------some item and then some more
which does not fit on one line.
How can I change this? I checked a lot of properties of tables and enumerations. I even found an example in some template just the way I want it, but I cannot figure out what setting I should change?
Many thanks, Evilbu ( talk) 20:25, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
is it possible maybe in c/c# (i know i can zip with the password but i want the folder to appear to be a normal folder). Thanx! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.0.122.9 ( talk) 21:55, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
I have a samsung lcd monitor
and got a few questions about it
when you bring up the system menu and go to information part of it itll say its current resolution refresh rate like this 1920x1080 67.5khz 60 hz PP or the latter could be NP so I wanna know what these two letters stand for and mean and what the difference is any one know??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.21.51 ( talk) 22:30, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
i dont think it has anything to do with that, cos then when you change the resolution to something that isnt its native say to 720p it changes that to NP. im just curious — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.3.109 ( talk) 02:49, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
I've just come across some URLs that are hundreds of thousands of characters long (>700k) that almost crash firefox. Why could this ever be necessary? They can be found by enlarging the images on this page and then viewing the image (obviously I'm not going to copy one here). They all start with "data:image/png;base64," rather than http - what does that mean? Cheers SmartSE ( talk) 23:48, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
This does not answer your question, but . . . it's clear that some people want long URLs. -- Hoary ( talk) 14:38, 26 March 2012 (UTC)