Some basic questions on Hoary usage

[Fabio Rafael da Rosa]

Gábor Iglói escreveu:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to ask about 3 issues:
> 
> 1. Where should I mount my harddisk partitions in Hoary to be able to
> reach them on the desktop (under Places or Computer)?
put "user" in your fstab options for the filesystem.
then, gvm automagicaly put the icon in your desktop and places
;)
> 
> 2. What to set in gnome-terminal for not handling the F10 key? If I
> press F10 now, the terminal's menu activates - it's a bit annoying
> when using mc in a terminal window and I can't quit.
> 
> 3. I have this issue with only the lately installed Hoary Array 6: my
> harddrive tends to give some strange high pitch sounds (it's a quiet
> hdd and is totally quiet under other OSes: UHU-Linux, Warty and
> MSWin). I have dmesg | grep error and cat /var/log/syslog | grep error
> but there is no errors there regarding hdd. Maybe an issue with
> hdparm? ->
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> user at ubuntu:~$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/hda
> Password:
> 
> /dev/hda:
> 
> ATA device, with non-removable media
>         Model Number:       SAMSUNG SV1604N
>         Serial Number:      0654J1FW901280
>         Firmware Revision:  TR100-23
> Standards:
>         Supported: 7 6 5 4
>         Likely used: 7
> Configuration:
>         Logical         max     current
>         cylinders       16383   65535
>         heads           16      1
>         sectors/track   63      63
>         --
>         CHS current addressable sectors:    4128705
>         LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
>         LBA48  user addressable sectors:  312581808
>         device size with M = 1024*1024:      152627 MBytes
>         device size with M = 1000*1000:      160041 MBytes (160 GB)
> Capabilities:
>         LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
>         Queue depth: 1
>         Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
>         R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16  Current = ?
>         Recommended acoustic management value: 254, current value: 254
>         DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
>              Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
>         PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>              Cycle time: no flow control=240ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
> Commands/features:
>         Enabled Supported:
>            *    READ BUFFER cmd
>            *    WRITE BUFFER cmd
>            *    Host Protected Area feature set
>            *    Look-ahead
>            *    Write cache
>            *    Power Management feature set
>                 Security Mode feature set
>            *    SMART feature set
>            *    FLUSH CACHE EXT command
>            *    Mandatory FLUSH CACHE command
>            *    Device Configuration Overlay feature set
>            *    48-bit Address feature set
>            *    Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
>                 SET MAX security extension
>            *    DOWNLOAD MICROCODE cmd
>            *    SMART self-test
>            *    SMART error logging
> Security:
>         Master password revision code = 65534
>                 supported
>         not     enabled
>         not     locked
>         not     frozen
>         not     expired: security count
>                 supported: enhanced erase
>         96min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 96min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
> HW reset results:
>         CBLID- above Vih
>         Device num = 0 determined by the jumper
> Checksum: correct
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> user at ubuntu:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/hda
> 
> /dev/hda:
> 
>  Model=SAMSUNG SV1604N, FwRev=TR100-23, SerialNo=0654J1FW901280
>  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
>  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=34902, SectSize=554, ECCbytes=4
>  BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
>  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
>  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
>  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
>  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2
>  AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
>  Drive conforms to: (null):
> 
>  * signifies the current active mode
>