Monthly Archives: February 2005

Hacked init.d script for 3dm2

I installed 3Ware’s 3dm2. The older variant stopped working under 2.6.10. The RedHat init.d script was not suitable, so I modified it for my Debian install.

#!/bin/sh
#
# 3w-xxxx: Starts the 3ware daemon
#
# description: Start the 3dmd application which logs the current state
# [...]

Laptop hard drive toast after all

X has been slowly dying away on my laptop of late, windows disappearing when I select them. I finally managed to get to the console this time before it simply froze. The disk is indeed finally failing. I was surprised it seemed fine with all the noise it has been making, quite [...]