As the title says, I am new to the Yamaha SY77, and I'm making a split voice with piano on the left and sax on the right, and I want the sustain footswitch only to affect the piano. (How) can this be done? It was trivial on the DX7 II-D with a Split-mode Performance, but I can't seem to find a setting on the SY77.

Having programmed the DX7 (II) for a long time, and having read the SY77 manual, I had no big trouble finding my way around the 77, but this one baffles me. I would consider it pretty vanilla to be able to sustain piano chords with the left hand and and then play unsustained lead lines with the right.

In most respects, real-time-controller-wise, the DX7 II seemed more flexible, even though undoubtedly the SY's synth engine is much more capable.

(Also posted to reddit, since the community is still a lot larger, but I'm willing to give lemmy a chance ...)

I know that for decades now, hard disks don't really reveal their actual internal geometry (which is complicated anyway, since inner cylinders may have fewer sectors than outer cylinders, etc.), and present fictional geometries to satisfy legacy software, but I found it weird anyway.

I have a ZFS raidz2 NAS which originally consisted of 8x2 TB SAS disks and is now in the process of being live-upgraded to 8x4 TB (change disks one by one, resilver, change, resilver, etc ...)

I now have four of the disks replaced, and in NetBSD they all report different geometries. They all report the exact same number of total blocks, so it's not actually an issue, but still strange.

sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST4000NM0023, GE11> disk fixed

sd0: 3726 GB, 330809 cyl, 10 head, 2362 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 7814037168 sectors

sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST4000NM0023, GE11> disk fixed

sd1: 3726 GB, 348145 cyl, 10 head, 2244 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 7814037168 sectors

sd3 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <IBM-B040, ST4000NM0023, BC5P> disk fixed

sd3: 3726 GB, 342419 cyl, 10 head, 2282 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 7814037168 sectors

sd7 at scsibus0 target 7 lun 0: <IBM-B040, ST4000NM0023, BC5P> disk fixed

sd7: 3726 GB, 341874 cyl, 10 head, 2285 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 7814037168 sectors

Two of them are IBM-branded (although they are in fact all Seagate Constellation ES.3), so I might expect slight differences, but even those with the same branding and the same revision present different geometries.

Anyway, probably just a curiosity, it will be interesting to find what the remaining four disks will show.

I might add that the older 2 TB disks (Seagate Constalleation ES, IBM-branded) all show the exact same geometry:

sd2 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <IBM-ESXS, ST32000444SS, BC2D> disk fixed

sd2: 1863 GB, 249000 cyl, 8 head, 1961 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3907029168 sectors

sd4 at scsibus0 target 4 lun 0: <IBM-ESXS, ST32000444SS, BC2D> disk fixed

sd4: 1863 GB, 249000 cyl, 8 head, 1961 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3907029168 sectors

sd5 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <IBM-ESXS, ST32000444SS, BC2D> disk fixed

sd5: 1863 GB, 249000 cyl, 8 head, 1961 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3907029168 sectors

sd6 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <IBM-ESXS, ST32000444SS, BC2D> disk fixed

sd6: 1863 GB, 249000 cyl, 8 head, 1961 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3907029168 sectors

I have two Dell T320 servers, which work great. But I'd like to have some more CPU power, so think about upgrading to the T420. It is almost the same, except that on the T420 main board, which seems to be otherwise the identical PCB, the second CPU socket is actually installed. (In the T320 it's just empty soldering points.) My question is: Is the air baffle the same, or do I need a new one if I swap out the main board? I am aware that I will need a second CPU heatsink.

Thanks.

A four-part series of the interview with one of the greatest test pilots, D. P. Davies, conducted in 1992 for the Royal Aeronautical Society. Almost five hours of avgeek gold. (The other three parts should be listed at the bottom.)

D. P. Davies is also the author of the seminal work about flying large airliners, "Handling the Big Jets".

Although less well known, he is undoubtedly on the same level as Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover.

The level of expertise and adventure, combined with the British humour and understatement, makes this immensely enjoyable to listen to, despite the less-than-perfect audio quality.

We have several phones in our family, and all connect just fine, but not the 8T. Two of the working phones are OnePlus 6T on the same LineageOS version. Are there known problems specifically with the 8T?

The phone charges fine when connected to the car, but the car does not recognize an android auto-capable phone. With the other phones, the AA icon appears instantly on the car screen, but nothing happens with the 8T. We upgraded to the latest lineageos build and tried different cables but no change.

The car is a 2019 Peugeot 5008 II, if that matters.

What's the general opinion on the BSDs? Are they just Unix-Like (like Linux), or are they really Unix?

Some call them "heritage Unix", because, although they no longer contain a single line of AT&T code (and haven't for over 40 years), they were ultimately derived from the original Unix.

This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, because I wonder, if you consider BSD to be "true Unix", what other "Unix-like" operating system besides Linux kernel-based systems there are. Or are "real" Unices also considered "unix-like"?

As an aside, what about macOS, if you use the command line a lot?

There already is !aviation@lemmy.ml and I made !flying@feddit.de. So maybe we don't need additional communities here. Just saying.