Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 driver
Posted: 2020-01-26 Filed under: system | Tags: ATA, ATA 300, ATA 600, BCM4322, broadcom, dell, e6400, latitude, sataii, sataiii, SSD 1 CommentI bought a refurbished Dell Latitude E6400. After changing the hard disk to a new SSD, I installed (of course) Slackware64 14.2 on it. Everything went fine, but the WiFi was not supported out-of-the-box. However, there was a very easy solution.
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SSD trimming as a cron job
Posted: 2016-01-23 Filed under: system | Tags: cron, crontab, ext4, fstrim, fstrimDaemon, SSD, trim, XFS 3 CommentsI use XFS for my SSD and the partitions are mounted with default settings in /etc/fstab. Instead of using the discard option, I decided to set the fstrim command running as a cron job. As a side note, other filesystems that support trimming listed in the Arch Wiki are: Btrfs, Ext4, JFS.
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SSD trouble
Posted: 2016-01-16 Filed under: system | Tags: discard, error, ext4, ext4_find_entry, filesystem, fstab, noatime, relatime, SSD, trim, unable to read itable block 2 CommentsOne of my PCs has a 60.0 GB Corsair Force GT SandForce Driven SSD. When I bought it, I read a bit about SSDs and I set several options in my /etc/fstab. However, whenever copying some big files, the system seemed to hang for a while. In other cases, the it would just crash, killing X and leaving me in the console, but even shutting down was not possible. It would spit out errors, containing stuff like: Read the rest of this entry »
XFS
Posted: 2016-01-14 Filed under: system | Tags: noatime, relatime, SSD, trim, XFS, xfs_db, xfs_fsr, xfs_repair 2 CommentsI am using XFS at the moment and I will put here a few filesystem related tools, for my own future use. The Arch Linux wiki has good documentation. Read the rest of this entry »
SSD
Posted: 2012-06-05 Filed under: system | Tags: SSD 1 CommentProblem: I bought a SSD
Solution: Read the corresponding section at the Arch linux wiki. So, I did: Read the rest of this entry »
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