Catatonic hard drive

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

David Hummel wrote, On 01/17/2005 06:29 PM:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:19:34PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> 
>>- How does one tell the hard drive not to sleep, in case it's that?
> 
> 
> $ hdparm -S 0 /dev/hdXX

It's unfortunate there's no parameter to SEE that setting, only to change it. 
  I have it set to zero now.

BTW, if anyone playing at home tries this, it's /dev/hdX, not /dev/hdXX (ie. 
the device number, not the device and partition numbers)/

>>- To minimize downtime, I would like to install SuSE 9.2 and all my
>>other software on the new hard drive in a second computer,  and move
>>it over and tweak when it's ready.  The main obstacles I see to doing
>>this is moving from apache1.3 to apache2
> 
> 
> If you don't want to deal with upgrading and you're not stuck on SuSE,
> Debian sarge/sid allows you to choose between 1.3 or 2.

Oh, I *do* want to deal with it (mainly because I use Subversion, and the 
Subversion apache modules only work with apache2).  I just don't know how hard 
it will be, because I know the layout of the config files changed drastically.

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