it’s unix, not eunuchs » RAID http://www.itsunixnoteunuchs.com Howdy! I'm Daniel J. Doughty, and these are my geeky thoughts. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:03:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 hard drive woes http://www.itsunixnoteunuchs.com/2006/01/30/hard-drive-woes/ http://www.itsunixnoteunuchs.com/2006/01/30/hard-drive-woes/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:23:38 +0000 admin http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2006/01/30/hard-drive-woes/ 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.

]]> http://www.itsunixnoteunuchs.com/2006/01/30/hard-drive-woes/feed/ 0 file server http://www.itsunixnoteunuchs.com/2005/06/19/file-server/ http://www.itsunixnoteunuchs.com/2005/06/19/file-server/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:22:24 +0000 admin http://www.danieljdoughty.com/2005/06/19/file-server/ 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.

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

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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

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