it’s unix, not eunuchs

My hard drive woes are fixed. Remember that hard drive I bought for the DVR? Finally got it returned to newegg(it died shortly after I started using it.) Now I tossed it in my main computer that’s been running poorly lately. So I mounted it up on my sata channel. At first it wouldn’t mount. Checked the manual and find that I have to set a DIP switch. Got that knocked out and then the OS blue screened. Crossed my fingers and just tried again. It booted.

And surprise surprise….it turns out I have on-board SATA raid. So install the drivers and get moving. In the meanwhile I pull up the PDF on the hardware. Even better. The system doesn’t have to build a RAID from scratch. I can move data to this drive then add a backup drive later on and it will migrate the data to the new drive. So next paycheck I’ll dump $110 into another Seagate Barracuda at newegg and I’ll be sporting two RAIDs on the same system. Plus I can put a new XP load on this system(it’s 30 months old.) and really enjoy life.

my stupid file server is messing up again. what in the hell? I ran a sanity check on the RAID this morning and it failed, so now it’s rebuilding. I’m beginning to believe this rocketraid 1640 is a not much good.

anyhow, off for juevos rancheros from my favorite waitress.

second time in two weeks. sure it was only a few minutes. but it destroyed my RAID last time. You know, the big 400GB mirror? Yup, it’s toast.

Guess I’ll have to look at an UPS.  this is getting silly.

Nothing says unhappy like moving 10 GB from a non-raided non-linux device to a raided linux device…..

ONLY TO REMEMBER THAT YOU FORMATTED THE RAIDED LINUX DEVICE AS A NTFS DEVICE THAT WON’T WORK ONCE I LOAD LINUX!!!

SO NOW I HAVE TO MOVE ALL THE DATA BACK AND REFORMAT THE RAIDED VOLUME! THEN I CAN FINALLY START LOADING LINUX!

GRRRRRRRR