Might be a SAS driver issue. Have you checked if the drives show up on a live distro, something more current, like let’s say Void or anything that has a 6.x kernel?

I’ve had issues like this with older Marvel SCSI controllers, some of them don’t have open source drivers for Linux, and the ones provided by the manufacturer (if there are any) are so old that you’d have to be runnig kernel 2.x in order for them to work. I just gave up in the end, disabled the SCSI controller in BIOS and just used the rigs on IDE/SATA.

Doesn’t matter, I have no idea who the user is.

That’s not the point… it was eight there… right there, no need to dig deeper… and it wasn’t like a 30GB bluray rip went missing, it was just a few lines of text, a few very valuable lines of text… but no, some people thought it’s more imoortant to protest than the freedom of information 😒… info that they once shared BTW, no one forced them to do it, but no, some of the protesters thought it was a good idea yo delete all of the content and their accounts… please explain how this is a good idea.

Ummm… as I said, everything up until Windows 7 won’t boot, not unless is WinPE based. If it’s a regular install, no, it won’t. Windows 8 and above, yes, it will boot… and it won’t throw errors. Will everything regarding 3rd party software work? No. Can it be fixed? No, no source available. Then what’s the point of booting from anything other than C? IDK, you tell me 😂.

Really? Try booting Windows XP from a drive that is not marked as C: somewhere in registry and in config files. Even if you do manage to change the root from C to something else, it simply refuses to boot, end of story. People have tried it, it just doesn’t work. With Win8 and above, yes, it does work, but some programs will out right refuse to work (cuz they’re gonna look for C:\%WINDIR%\system32 for the libs it needs to run, and they won’t be able to find them).

The only exception to this rule is WinPE (for WinXP), and that is a hacky setup, not officially supported by MS. It can be done, but it takes a looong time to actually make it bootable under any drive letter (anything that’s not C).

But yes, you are correct, drive letters were in use before DOS.

Unfortunatelly, drive letters are reminants from the DOS and early Windows days (anything that isn’t NT 6.2 kernel based or above, has to have drive letters), so they have to stay for backwards compatibility.

Actually, up until Windows 8, drive letters were required for booting as well (which can be seen in the safe mode boot screen). Windows 8 and above doesn’t require them though (can be seen in safe mode with debugging enabled), but they are there and will stay there for a very, very long time. Windows can’t just part ways with them, there are just way too many things tied to them… legacy stuff, but legacy stuff that everyone still uses. Like try mounting a network drive without a drive letter, lol 😂… or anything for that matter without a letter, you can’t. It’s how Windows works. It’s so deep into the kernel, that there is no way to remove it without breaking stuff left and right.

I think Apollo was for Android as well.

Oh, cool, thanks for the explanation 👍.

What is that?

Exactly. Just move on.

No, I mean the portable nature of Chromium makes it a perfect candidate for making browsers like Vivaldi. And yeah, Vivaldi runs Chromium/Blink.

Thanks, will need it.

Ummmm… that’s a lot of movies…

Because we have a kid together. I stay because of the kid. He likes having both of us at his side, not just me or her. Besides, I’m more of a mother to him than she ever was and he adores me, so I’m not about to leave him with her (the court will give custody to her by default, I’d have to fight for him, and that will cost, A LOT, which is burned money, he can decided when he’s 12 who he wants to live with, I’ll stay around till then).

You are absolutely correct. Whatever postive sides she might have (there are, but they’re not that many to be honest) are completely overshadowed by her toxic personality.

It’s the reverse with her. She’s beating everyone else up for different things that happened ages ago, but she has to bring them up. It’s not one single big incident, they’re individual incidents, not related or anything… it’s just shit she remembers and just has to be the high and mighty judge, judging everyone else about their sins 😒. I mean, it gets tiring after a while. Yes, we know we screw up, we make mistakes, we are human, that’s what humans do.

But, dare not point at her own mistakes, oh no, not only will you get a shitstorm of insults, completely unrelated to the problem, but also get accusations that this problem or mistake of her’s is not actually her fault, but everyone elses… that, or she’ll just start crying and play the victim.

I just don’t have the time and the energy to do that any more. Too old and have a family now, which takes up most of my free time. The rest I spend here, on Lemmy.

Then it must be a creature of some sort… maybe a scavenger of some sort… who knows…

To be honest, I’m not the type of guy to dwell on these sorts of mysteries, I would be like “huh, that’s odd… oh well” and then just keep doing whatever it is I was doing. My wife is more that sort of type, even to the point where she would do a night watch… pisses me off 😒.

beating yourself up over it won’t really help you, and all you can ever do is change your present and future, not the past.

You should really talk to my wife about this.

Or Vivaldi.

That whole ‘nothing lasts forever’ thing isn’t because the changing internet standards, it’s because companies and websites choose to adopt those standards rather than stick with backwards compatibility.

That won’t stand true with Google I’m afraid. They adapt quickly. Meta is probably quicker than them, but doesn’t have the user base Google has, so it really can’t dictate that much.