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Mybook world edition II (blue rings) – Web GUI stuck

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

When replacing drives and rebuilding raid arrays the drive management page got stuck on formatting….

This is caused by a temp file being left in place when something goes wrong.

If you have ssh installed you can log in to box and delete files from /temp that cause the issue, in the drive management case this was /tmp/dm_progress

Scripts which name the temp files are in /usr/www/nbin

TVRAGE.COM API

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

I have been playing with a java program that looks up the TVRAGE site via the published API calls to retrieve the next episode information for TV shows. Most shows work easily when accessed but I had a problem with any that use the greek SIGMA letter and in the case of the show Greek I could not get a url for the API to work until I realised that entering %CE instead of a capital sigma works even if it did not show correctly on the URL line

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Info for setting up my old machine that has this processor (took a while to find the last time).

(Mine is 333 FSB)

 
 
There are three types of AMD Athlon XP 2600+ desktop processors.

Athlon XP 2600+ with 256KB L2 Cache and 266MHz FSB
CPU Speed: 2133MHz (2.133GHz)
CPU Frequency Multiplier: 16.0x
CPU External Frequency (MHz): 133

Athlon XP 2600+ with 256KB L2 Cache and 333MHz FSB
CPU Speed: 2083MHz (2.083GHz)
CPU Frequency Multiplier: 12.5x
CPU External Frequency (MHz): 166

Athlon XP 2600+ with 512KB L2 Cache and 333MHz FSB
CPU Speed: 1917MHz (1.917GHz)
CPU Frequency Multiplier: 11.5x
CPU External Frequency (MHz): 166

The CPU External Frequency for Athlon XP is half of the FSB Frequency. Thus, with a 333MHz FSB, the CPU External Frequency is 166MHz.

On the ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard, for a 333MHz FSB Athlon XP, the setting for CPU External Frequency (MHz) should be 166/33. 33MHz is for the PCI Bus, while 166MHz is for the System Bus (a.k.a. External Bus).

For PC2700 RAM, the Memory Frequency is 333MHz.

(was on http://hankfiles.pcvsconsole.com/answer.php?file=564)