[Arm-netbook] new development laptop needed, looking at dell xps 13 9350

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

okaaay, apparently there's a store called http://gplustore.com in
luohu, shenzhen (right outside the border crossing from HK), which is
listed as a distributor for the Aorus laptops.  it's a bit weird: they
appear to be a bricks-and-mortar presence for what is essentially a
pure "online" operation.

i'm *really* liking the x3 plus v6 - the only thing is, it's essential
that i find out if the NVMe can be flipped over to AHCI in the BIOS,
and that Secure Boot can be disabled.

l.


On 12/4/16, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> On 12/4/16, Christopher Havel <laserhawk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> @luke -- what's the Mac version of fsck (command-line filesystem check,
>> Windows' version is chkdsk) and did you run it?
>
>  yep.
>
>> I've 'fixed' improperly-unmounted USB thumb drives with that command.
>
>  yep, i know what it does - it triggers an ioctl to the system which
> refreshes the partition table.
>
>> On Linux, where 'sdx' is your SSD, "fsck -a sdx" (no quotes!) followed by
>> a
>> punch of the ENTER key, will do good things, if it's just a corrupt
>> filesystem.
>
>  all it does is hang at that point.  the kingston 512gb drive really
> is completely f*****d.
>
> l.
>