Questions Tagged With hardware

Is it possible to get jailbreak that is untethered on ios?

Qumz — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 01:41:34 -0500

I had been wondering in the event you can get an jailbreak for my i-phone 3gs 5.1 I understand I dont need to do this although you could get a tethered

mistakenly copied an iso into external hard drive using dd

vecciora — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 02:51:00 -0500

I was mistakenly copied an iso into my external hard drive!

# dd if=iso.iso of=/dev/sdb oflag=direct bs=1M
^C83+0 records in
82+0 records out
85983232 bytes (86 MB) copied, 2.34214 s, 36.7 MB/s

It's not finished though. Hurriedly pressed ctrl+c to stop it. I could still play videos in my external hard drive but I'm worried. Is it okay? Or not? What should I do?

A clip of fdisk -l output:

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 238475 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x127a3aba

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           0     6047743     3023872   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS

Sorry for my bad english.

eof marker on tape

mervclel — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:34:20 -0500

When using the 'mt' command: I am using a linux system with a HP_Ultrium_960 (800GB) tape drive. I inadvertantly used the 'weof' command when testing and wrote an 'eof' marker at the beginning of the tape. I have used the command 'gtar -ztvf /dev/rmt/2' and get an 'unexpected end of file' prompt. Can I reverse this 'eof' placement somehow? Also can I use commands such as the 'fsf' to read after the 'eof' marker. I need to retrieve the data.

Appreciate if someone could answer the above questions and add any further comment.

Is there a device listing in Ubuntu?

David Ecklein 1 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:38:13 -0400

What I am looking for is something equivalent to "device manager" in Windows. Do I have to go to terminal to find it; if so, what do I type in?

Which netbooks have hardware well supported by Ubuntu?

Chris Stewart — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:05:00 -0400

I want a basic machine to do some Internet browsing, email, Twitter/Facebook, and to learn C/Python on. I would prefer to keep it under $300 and therefore I'm looking at a netbook. Can anyone recommend a netbook that has hardware well supported by Ubuntu?

Hard drive 'Hard resetting link'

LiquidPaper — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:11:56 -0400

Got a new HD for my aging server. Is a WD500AAKS. This rig has no SATA, so I connected through a VIA card that was working ok with a WD 80G. Now I get these messages.

May  6 18:57:30 asuracenturix kernel: [114177.444092] ata3: hard resetting link
May  6 18:57:30 asuracenturix kernel: [114177.780064] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
May  6 18:57:30 asuracenturix kernel: [114177.807356] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
May  6 18:57:30 asuracenturix kernel: [114177.807395] ata3: EH complete

Do you think is a hardware problem? Should I return the drive? This means without the server until the shop graciously checks the drive and decide it is MY problem?