harddrive

C++ hibernate a hard disk (programatically)

In OS's like WS2008R2 and its compliment 7, I need to hibernate one (of two) hard drives. The hard drive in question gets hot (cos its old) and is only used to write images of the main HD too once a week. I would like to issue it a "sleep" or "hibernate" command. Also, I dont want it to wake up when unless an app is needs to read/write...

Is there a way to programatically control harddrive activity lights on linux?

Hey all, Just like in the main question, is there a way to do this? (Other than inducing a high io load) Maybe some facility deep down in the kernel that controls this? I'm looking to write a little script to identify failed drives in my software raid array. (Blinking the activity light in a certain repeating pattern, etc.) I read abo...

Is it possible to create 2 raids with the PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H700?

Hi I would like to know if it's possible to create 2 raids with the PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H700? I would like to create a raid 1 with 2 SAS HD and a raid 5 with 3 SATA HD. (all HD are of the same size) Thank you in advance! cheers daniel ...

boot-able flash drive mac osx86

I want to create bootable flash drive of mac osx86 operating system. I found the following tutorial http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2006/12/07/boot-osx86-from-pendrive.html I don't have machine running mac OS, so can any buddy guide me how can i create boot-able flash drive using mac osx86 .iso image ? ...