Preventing the Promise DS4600 RAID array from sleeping all the time
Dear Promise Technology, Inc.,
Your SmartStor DS4600 RAID array is mostly lovely. I really enjoy having a big phat 5.7TB RAID array on my desk (attached to an iMac via FW800). Even after consolidating all my loose storage drives, I still have more than 2TB of RAID protected space available. Yumm.
However, you are boneheads. Why would you spin my drives down all the time, without checking whether I am at the computer? Checking drive access idle
Compiling Realtek 8169 drivers on Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04)
It’s been a long time since I compiled kernel modules … and now that Ubuntu moved to some fancy Git based system for kernel source, I had no idea how to get headers and build essentials. Well, here is the command:
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
Once you’ve run that, the instructions in the Realtek README file will actually work!