Tag Archives: debian

Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB Setup

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Null

A lot of ST32000542AS drives come with the CC34 firmware. Apparently it has various known problems, one of which is an annoying click (click of death). The first thing you’ll want to do is upgrade the firmware to CC35. A Link to the instructions is in the references section below.

Once that is done, the next step, if it exists, is removing HPA from the drive.
You’ll know it has HPA enabled by running hparm. HPA results in less capacity and so it’s not a good thing in an array.

We’ll be using Debian 6.0 (squeeze).

hparm -N /dev/sdb


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Debian Squeeze iscsitarget

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Null

Since Debian squeeze doesn’t appear to include pre-built iscsitarget kernel modules, the iscsitartget-dkms must be installed. This is a source package and will install gcc etc to compile. It should compile automatically.

apt-get install iscsitarget-dkms

Here is a list of iscsi related packages I installed on my secondary NAS:
iscsitarget 1.4.20.2-1 iSCSI Enterprise Target userland tools
iscsitarget-dkms 1.4.20.2-1 iSCSI Enterprise Target kernel module source – dkms version
open-iscsi 2.0.871.3-2squeeze1 High performance, transport independent iSCSI implementation

I found this info in a bug report through google after I received a module not found error when issuing a /etc/init.d/iscsitarget restart


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HTTPS Redirects

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Null

Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS for a whole site using virtual hosts:





#Basics snipped for brevity....


   RewriteEngine on
   #RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]


RedirectPermanent / https://www.foo.com/

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CTRL-ALT-DEL: Debian on Desktop

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Null

I run debian+gnome on a VMware desktop. One of the annoying things is when I press CTRL-ALT-DEL to lock Windows (the hosting OS), the guest OS picks it up and I come back to a powered down VM.

Google results will tell you that disabling it in /etc/inittab or gconf-edit will do the trick. That’s just not the case.

You need to go to system > preferences > keyboard shortcuts and disable it there.

This completely disables it.


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Debian NAS

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Null

I wanted a centralized home storage system that could feed all my other toys. Data stored on this will include MySQL datafiles, our MP3 collection, website directories and all our receipts printed out in PDF format (Yay! CutePDF) among other things. And so the fun began…

I did some test installs of various “turnkey” solutions such as Openfiler.

Openfiler just didn’t seem stable enough. Arrays would claim to have faulty drives and start rebuilding the arrays at the strangest times. Only to find out, via 3rd party tools, that the drive was fine. The web interface was ok but I would have organized it differently. Minus that, Openfiler has a lot of potential.


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