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“Each Raptor rocket engine produces twice as much thrust as all 4 engines on a 747. There are 33 Raptor engines powering the Starship rocket booster.”
一 Elon Musk
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#Grok3 just blew my mind.
I'm attempting to set up (partition and format) an old SCSI drive on a 1980s PDP-11/73 connected to an aftermarket Emulex UC17 controller rocking both a ZuluSCSI emulator AND a real ST43400N drive. Pretty obscure stuff.
The problem is banal - the drive has a current "temp" partition table created by the 211BSD UNIX kernel that's seemingly random - or at least very wrong. The catch is you can't shrink even an imaginary partition, so you can't fix it, at least not easily.
Grok correctly figured out that the best way to fix it was to create an offline partition table in a file and then write it directly to the disk, without trying to read what was currently reported at all. By bypassing the current label and stuffing the current geometry onto the drive, you could fix it in a single step.
The entails creating the entire partition table with all the correct geometry (heads, cyls, interleave, etc) for an ancient Seagate ST43400N.
The first time I hit this problem, a few months back, I used ChatGPT. After an hour or so of back and forth, "we" solved it, but it was multiple steps involving custom distkab entries.
Since Grok 3 is new, I figured I'd give it a shot:
It coughed out the right answer, including the partition table template for me to use, the first time, first prompt.
I did give it the source code to the disklabel command, which appears to have helped a great deal.
Given there just isn't that much 211BSD information out there on the web, I'm surprised and impressed!
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Grok 3 Voice Mode just dropped and it's INSANE
Everyone on X is going crazy over its capabilities.
Here are 7 wild examples you don't want to miss:
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What I said over 2 years ago was that Ukraine should seek peace or suffer severe loss of life for no gains.
The latter was Zelensky’s choice.
Now, he wants to do that again.
This is cruel and inhumane.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Ukraine-Russia Peace: - Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision. Russia leaves if that is will of the people. - Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev’s mistake). - Water supply to Crimea assured. - Ukraine remains neutral.
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