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#19985 - 09/10/2000 22:54 How can I cancel sync in progress
dewdman42
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Registered: 13/09/2000
Posts: 186
Just got my new Mark II in the mail. Pretty exciting actually. Aside from the fact that the handle has several chips in it (eeek), its a beautiful unit. I even got Ethernet working with DHCP in pretty short order (I had to setup dhcpd on my linux box first, but I wanted to learn that anyway).

A couple questions:

1 - How can I verify how much space is available on the HD's? I purchased the 36GB unit, which supposedle is actually a 40GB unit. However, I can't seem to find anyway in Emplode 1.01 or otherwise to determine just exactly how much room I have left on those empty disks. ??

2 - Is there a way to cancel a sync that is in progress? The cancel button is greyed out on the dialog box.

Thanks!
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#19986 - 09/10/2000 23:52 Re: How can I cancel sync in progress [Re: dewdman42]
Derek
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Registered: 16/08/1999
Posts: 453
Loc: NRW, Germany
Empode displays the space remaining in the right hand end of the status bar

(list 6284, Mk1 S/N 00299 4GB blue [for sale]. Mk2 S/N 080000094 6GB blue)
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#19987 - 10/10/2000 00:03 Re: How can I cancel sync in progress [Re: Derek]
dewdman42
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Registered: 13/09/2000
Posts: 186
Thanks Derek. I found it. Now one more question. When it says:

xxxx of 37952MB, does that mean that I have the 36GB unit or the 40GB unit (which they are supposed to be shipping now)??

-steve
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#19988 - 10/10/2000 02:12 Re: How can I cancel sync in progress [Re: dewdman42]
altman
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Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
It's a 40Gb. The difference in capacity is due to drive manufacturers specifying Gb as billion bytes, whereas we use (1<<30) as the size of a Gb (much like the difference between the label marking on your 3.5" HDDs and what your BIOS actually says the capacity is).

Hugo



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#19989 - 10/10/2000 03:30 Re: How can I cancel sync in progress [Re: altman]
dewdman42
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Registered: 13/09/2000
Posts: 186
Ah, got it. So the 36GB drives were actually ...let me see here.... 36,000,000,000 bytes...

36B / 1024 / 1024 = 34332 MB
40B / 1024 / 1024 = 38146 MB

Sound about right? That would leave about 200MB on the OS partition I'm guessing....and would all add up. :-))))

ps - do you know if its possible to cancel a sync in progress without screwing anything up?

Thanks

-steve
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#19990 - 10/10/2000 03:42 Re: How can I cancel sync in progress [Re: dewdman42]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
No, it's not possible to cancel a sync in progress without screwing everything up. This is why we disabled the button.

In practice, you can kill emplode, reconnect a new instance, and after a disk check and a database rebuild, you'll find a bunch of empty playlists, and the file that was being written will probably be garbage.

Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg
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#19991 - 10/10/2000 03:49 Re: How can I cancel sync in progress [Re: Roger]
dewdman42
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Registered: 13/09/2000
Posts: 186
Ick, yucky. guess I better try not to ever get in a situation where I need to kill a sync in progress....

Any chance that this situation may be improved in 1.1 or the future?

-steve
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#19992 - 14/10/2000 00:15 Re: How can I cancel sync in progress [Re: dewdman42]
dionysus
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Registered: 16/06/1999
Posts: 1222
Loc: San Francisco, CA
sounds like the 40gb unit.. My 36gb unit actually came formatted to around 34gb..
-mark

MK2: 36gb
Tivo: 90gb
CPU: 120gb
...I think drive manufacturers love me!
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