One of the team servers, which was set up with a RAID1 array had a disk that went bad. Here’s a rough outline of how that was fixed.
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Repairing a degraded RAID array
Author: wmack
UEFI, Secure Boot, Windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 – more learnings
This posting is a summary of how I got two systems to dual boot windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.04. Note that this was done on systems that didn’t boot legacy, and had secure boot enabled.
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Ralink-based wifi access point in Linux – frequent dropouts on Windows clients
One of my recent projects was built around an Intel Atom system. One of its functions was to be a wireless access point. The chip that was in use was an Ralink 8192, hooked up through a USB port. A lot of clients (Windows, Android, iPhone) either dropped the connection frequently, or wouldn’t connect at all.
This block describes a remedy.
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