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1Tb Maxtor basic drives & ZFS

Published on June 28, 2009 By SUNWfrk

I have two 1TB Maxtor basic drives connected to my opensolaris box. On there I run a ZFS mirror. All working well, maybe not on mega speeds but fairly enough for home use (it does stream movies to my AppleTV with XBMC over smb) The downside I discovered later, is that they auto sleep after [...]

Specify the Finder icon with Avahi on OpenSolaris 2008.11

Published on April 5, 2009 By SUNWfrk

I found this article from Simon Wheatley and found it very nice to do. But it didn’t seem to work on OpenSolaris… but don’t worry, it just needs a small fix, don’t use port 0 for _device-info._tcp, but just give it a port you are already advertising.

Very strange Superdrive problem

Published on January 6, 2009 By SUNWfrk

My macbook pro suddenly refused to write dvd’s. Offcourse you think your dvd writer is dead, but reading cd and dvd’s worked just fine. The error I got was: The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media So I started to investigate and found out thanks to macosxhints forum it was [...]

Store Time Machine backups on AFP

Published on November 17, 2008 By SUNWfrk

Off-course you want to use timemachine now when you’ve set up your AFP server, I found everything whats needed in 3 easy steps on macosxhints.com. on your local mac in Terminal type the following command. hdiutil create -size $SIZE -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname “Backup of $HOSTNAME” -fs “Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+” -verbose ~/Desktop/$HOSTNAME_$MAC_ADDRESS.sparsebundle $SIZE = the maximum [...]