Well it's been a few days...


...hell, it's been a few weeks since I've had time/effort to post a new entry here on the blog.

quite a bit has happened over the last few weeks. Let's see, to net it out.

since June 24th I:

Lost two hard drives on the server, and hadn't backed up since 4/4 so I lost everything from Easter until about the first of May. So the Wilmington Vacation is in the ether. At least Fotki has the files, now to figure out how to download them without having to pick one at a time. ugh.

I cursed Adaptec for their lack of support of Linux & alerting that there was an error. I mean when you have a RAID5 array you can loose a drive before you loose data. Apparently I lost one, and then a while later, I lost another. Apparently Adaptec saw no reason to notify anyone anywhere. Until I went into the BIOS util of the card did I finally notice that drives 1 and 2 were 'unavailable'. Nice.

Installing Fedora Core 2 on the card was no piece of cake either. I had to do some dancing to load a driver from an RPM not on the CD prior to doing something or other before it'd recognize the array. Of course the 'benefit' of open source software is that lots of people will help. Right. It took me four hours to figure that one out on my own and finally it was because I got ticked off and backed out of something that it started working. Not before I had to download the RPMs, extract the file (on a server at work) then download them to my PowerBook, upload them to my website so I could pull them down to the server that is sharing the airport connection on the iMac. Hows that for convoluted.

So the tape drive got replaced yesterday, and the new replacement hard drives (under warranty at least) came in today. I just got fedora core 2 installed and was just about to kick off the restore when the machine hung hard. So I'm rebooting now and everything seems to be coming up so we'll see what happens now.

Fun Fun.

Fourth of July was a blast, but that's another story.

Posted: Thu - July 8, 2004 at 07:52 PM           |

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