September 2012 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

issue with a former raid drive
by David Mehler 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hello, I've got a dimension 3100 Dell that has 2 SATA drives in it that use to be raided. Long story short the data recovery partition was removed or more likely not copied over when the drives were upgraded, so control+f11 won't work. I'm trying to get the drives to boot. It's like I'm dealing with two separate windows installs, one from each drive. The strange thing is if I connect either drive, or both I get an error about no boot device found. To get this machine to boot I have to put in a bootable OS install CD which asks me to hit a key to boot from it. If I don't and just let the boot sequence go through on it's own the drive boots, but it won't without the bootable disk. I am assuming that the drive is not bootable? This is definitely confusing and I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

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issue with a former raid drive
by David Mehler 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hello, I've got a dimension 3100 Dell that has 2 SATA drives in it that use to be raided. Long story short the data recovery partition was removed or more likely not copied over when the drives were upgraded, so control+f11 won't work. I'm trying to get the drives to boot. It's like I'm dealing with two separate windows installs, one from each drive. The strange thing is if I connect either drive, or both I get an error about no boot device found. To get this machine to boot I have to put in a bootable OS install CD which asks me to hit a key to boot from it. If I don't and just let the boot sequence go through on it's own the drive boots, but it won't without the bootable disk. I am assuming that the drive is not bootable? This is definitely confusing and I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

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recommendations for ssh client & jaws 13
by John Heim 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

I wonder if anyone has a recommendation for an ssh client that works well with jaws 13. I've been using openssh for Windows for years and it has served me well except for a couple of things. There has always been a problem in that jaws speaks the keys as you enter your password. Anybody nearby can hear your password. A problem with jaws 13 is that as you type something at the command prompt after connecting, jaws reads the entire line with each keystroke. Older versions of jaws didn't do that. There is probably some way to fix it but I don't know enough about jaws scripting to know. I tried putty but the jaws scripts I've found won't compile. I'm guessing they're not compatible with jaws 13. Any other suggestions? I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation for

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Jaws performing worse on some sites now?
by Andrew Hodgson 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi, What do people think about JFW behaving worse on some websites now, especially those that use rich content like some administration websites? I didn't upgrade to IE9 for ages, because I couldn't use the Jaws cursor very much in IE9, and used it a lot on some company sites I needed to interact with a lot. I think the problem is that Jaws tries to cope with the rich elements of the site, whereas with older browsers, these didn't get handled as well, so we could use our own methods to work with the content we have. Discuss. Andrew.

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Jaws performing worse on some sites now?
by Andrew Hodgson 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi, What do people think about JFW behaving worse on some websites now, especially those that use rich content like some administration websites? I didn't upgrade to IE9 for ages, because I couldn't use the Jaws cursor very much in IE9, and used it a lot on some company sites I needed to interact with a lot. I think the problem is that Jaws tries to cope with the rich elements of the site, whereas with older browsers, these didn't get handled as well, so we could use our own methods to work with the content we have. Discuss. Andrew.

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windows 7 talking install
by Isaac 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi, has anyone figured this one out.

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windows hard drive diagnostic utility?
by David Mehler 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Hello, Does anyone have an accessible windowsbased hard disk diagnostic program? I'm looking for something that I can install on to one box, plug in an external drive enclosure into, and diagnose the drive within, something like an accessible spinrite. Thanks. Dave.

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windows hard drive diagnostic utility?
by David Mehler 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

Hello, Does anyone have an accessible windowsbased hard disk diagnostic program? I'm looking for something that I can install on to one box, plug in an external drive enclosure into, and diagnose the drive within, something like an accessible spinrite. Thanks. Dave.

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