RAID is a PAIN
Saturday 8th April, 2006 02:01 Comments: 1
I got the new card working properly, but as I was copying data from my old 300GB disk (that I\'d reconnected a few months back) and copying data from the original array, a very loud and high pitched audible alarm went off. It was nearly 1AM and I think it woke my flatmate. The only way I could make it stop was to shut down the PC, which seemed to take forever (Windows first of all warns me that shutting it down via Remote Desktop means no one else can... I know, I know, I f**king know; then many of the applications take ages to shut down and I have to hit the End Now button a couple times). I thought about just holdig down the power button, but with two RAID arrays copying data, I thought it would be safer to shut down gracefully. According to the event log, it looks like channel 7 on the new RAID array went down for some reason, probably a loose connection with one of those Y splitters I\'m using, but once I take out the 300GB Maxtor drive I can take a Y splitter out, and maybe move a few things around.
Okay, that's the geeky stuff out of the way. I\'m currently stuffing my face with chocolate digestives, I\'ve sorted out the comments system (please feel free to leave a comment, for those of you that can), and it looks like I have nothing to do tomorrow so I may enjoy a long lie in. I\'m still trying - and failing - to talk myself out of renting the most expensive flat that I\'m hoping to look at next week. I think I might go with Bulldog for the broadband at my new place, I know they got some bad press a while back (on Watchdog, in particular), but they\'re cheap (much cheaper than Easynet, the other LLU at the exchange), don\'t have any limitations, and have a decent upload rate.
I\'m going to Tania's party later this month, it's a 1950s theme. 1950s. What on earth happened in the \'50s? I have no idea what to wear yet, I\'ll have to find someone famous from the \'50s that I won\'t mind dressing up as. Isn\'t that the decade when Sputnik was launched? Perhaps I\'ll dress up as Ross dressing up as "Spudnik" for that fancy dress party on Friends. Elle's coming up from London for the party, I can\'t wait to see her, we\'ve been chatting over MSN and text messages for what feels like ages but I think it's only been a week.
I tried to make a DVD with Nero 7 for Tania last night, it went pretty well, although it was quite slow; but I noticed halfway through one of the titles the audio went out of sync, presumably it hit an error in the source file and failed to deal with it properly. I\'m trying to decide whether to re-encode the file and then use Nero to re-encode it to a DVD, or if I\'ll just give her the source file and hope she can play MPEG-4 okay. Knowing me, I\'ll re-encode it and burn another DVD-R.
Okay, that's the geeky stuff out of the way. I\'m currently stuffing my face with chocolate digestives, I\'ve sorted out the comments system (please feel free to leave a comment, for those of you that can), and it looks like I have nothing to do tomorrow so I may enjoy a long lie in. I\'m still trying - and failing - to talk myself out of renting the most expensive flat that I\'m hoping to look at next week. I think I might go with Bulldog for the broadband at my new place, I know they got some bad press a while back (on Watchdog, in particular), but they\'re cheap (much cheaper than Easynet, the other LLU at the exchange), don\'t have any limitations, and have a decent upload rate.
I\'m going to Tania's party later this month, it's a 1950s theme. 1950s. What on earth happened in the \'50s? I have no idea what to wear yet, I\'ll have to find someone famous from the \'50s that I won\'t mind dressing up as. Isn\'t that the decade when Sputnik was launched? Perhaps I\'ll dress up as Ross dressing up as "Spudnik" for that fancy dress party on Friends. Elle's coming up from London for the party, I can\'t wait to see her, we\'ve been chatting over MSN and text messages for what feels like ages but I think it's only been a week.
I tried to make a DVD with Nero 7 for Tania last night, it went pretty well, although it was quite slow; but I noticed halfway through one of the titles the audio went out of sync, presumably it hit an error in the source file and failed to deal with it properly. I\'m trying to decide whether to re-encode the file and then use Nero to re-encode it to a DVD, or if I\'ll just give her the source file and hope she can play MPEG-4 okay. Knowing me, I\'ll re-encode it and burn another DVD-R.
Robert - Saturday 8th April, 2006 10:02 So much for a lie in, I woke up for no apparent reason just after 8 this morning, and I've just signed for a parcel (for my flatmate).