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Questions tagged [controller]

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How is the capacity of a harddisk faked?

I was reading about magical Chinese drives. How would this be done? The post talks about a 'looped mode' and comments suggest having a different controller to lie to the OS. I went and bought one of these devices, tried it and it worked as…
Rohan Monga
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What is a Intel LPC Interface Controller.

Intel LPC Interface Controller, What does LPC stand for? for what is this interface used?
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Avoid HDD spinup at boot

Is there any way to avoid specific HDDs from spinning up at boot time? There are 3 HDDs in my HTPC (Ubuntu 12.10) and 1 SSD (boot drive). I don't want the HDDs to spin up when booting to reduce boot time, save energy and expand the HDD's…
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How to disable Xbox One controller in UWP apps like Windows Store in Windows 10?

I've noticed recently on Windows 10 that UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps like the Xbox, Windows Store, etc are taking some inputs from my attached Xbox One controller. There is an article on MSDN regarding how UWP apps can now respond to…
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Relation between controllers, interfaces, adapt cards, chipsets, buses

I am confused about the following concepts and their relations: controllers, interfaces, adapters, chipsets, buses and north/south bridges. Can anyone point out how they are working together, what are their differences and relations? Thanks and…
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Are USB hard drive sizes limited by motherboard hard drive controller?

I'm looking to put an expansion EIDE controller in my dad's desktop so it can handle a new 500 GB drive (evidently the motherboard EIDE controller has the 137 GB limit). He got a 500 GB USB hard drive for it, too, and I was wondering if that would…
Nathaniel
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Intel SASWT4I SAS/SATA Controller

I want to assemble a cheap storage sytem based on the Norco RPC-4020 Case. When searching for controllers I found this one: Intel® RAID Controller SASWT4I This is a quote form the Spec Sheet: Scalability. Supports up to 122 physical devices in…
Joe Hopfgartner
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emulate xbox controller using keyboard and mouse

So I am trying to emulate an xbox 360 controller with my keyboard and mouse. use The OS I am using is parrotOS. As far as I can see there is not really any type of program which is able to emulate. List of things I have tried: wejoy - emulates…
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How can I find the right driver for my RAID controller?

I have a RAID controller that I used to have a driver for, but after rebuilding windows, the controller no longer shows up. I don't remember who made it, or really anything about it. How can I track down the correct driver for this controller?
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System Event ID 11 Disk

Upon starting Windows Server 2008 R2 I get this error message: Event ID 11 Disk The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3. There are also also 3 more similar messages for Harddisk 2, 4, and 5, but not zero or 1. Checking the…
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Controller Error: Do I need to worry?

I have a HP Pavillion dv5224ea Laptop with Windows 7 on it. Recently I discovered a Error in Event Viewer: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1. (more details): - System - Provider [ Name] atapi - EventID 11…
Kryten
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Silicon Image 3114 SATA PCI card modifies boot order and prevents from booting from CD

I have an old spare machine (P4 2,8 GHz, 2 GiB RAM) which I'd like to reuse as a small home media/archive server with a few SATA disks. I do have an Asus P4PE with BIOS version 1007 and obtained a Silicon Image 3114 SATA PCI controller with BIOS…
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Do partitions on SSDs map to physical addresses? 2

My scenario: I partition a 250GB SSD drive in half. I fill the 1st partition with OS and data and leave the 2nd one absolutely empty. Does this affect wear leveling of the SSD? Can partitioning an SSD make the SSD controller not use some memory…
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Xbox 360 Controller not working with PC

I have installed the 360 controller software from Microsoft and it comes up in device manager but the controller software does not recognize the device. Compatibility Report from Device Manager: Issues found Xbox 360 Wireless Controller via Play &…
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How does the BIOS disable a controller on the motherboard?

What happens when you disable a controller in the BIOS? How does it stop the OS from picking it up when it scans the buses for devices. Does it stop power going to the controller, if so how does it do that? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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