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Hey all, |
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Here is my first status update. And let me tell you, it couldn't have |
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gone worse. |
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After bad news, there is worse news. |
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I finally had a qemu setup running on my laptop (which runs Ubuntu 10.04 |
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on an age old pentium-m that doesn't do hardware virt) and was getting |
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into installing a bare stage3 to be my starting point. I had also |
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checked out the OpenRC and Upstart repositories and was working through |
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them to figure out what they do, and how they work. I did all this on an |
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external USB IDE disk, as I have a really small SSD in my laptop. I was |
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figureing, once I have something workable, I'll store it on my server as |
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a backup and sources in a git repository. |
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Two days ago, I decided to run a mandatory fsck.ext4 on my harddisk, to |
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make sure all was still well, after unplugging the disk a few times and |
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what not. Just a precaution I figured really. So an hour later, my drive |
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was empty. There was some left over gunk in lost+found; but everything |
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was gone. Of course I didn't expect things to be possibly that bad. |
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But things have gotten worse! Yesterday, coming home from the weekend |
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over at my GF's place, I wanted to turn on my desktop. Nothing. The |
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power led came on, and that was it. No fans spinning, no harddisks |
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spinning, nothing. After using the multi-meter and shortening the |
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power_on pins, I can only find 3.3V on the +5VSB line and the rest ... |
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nothing. So my trusty old Zalman may have finally died. I contacted |
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Zalman for an RMA, but if shipping is to expensive, I may just buy a new |
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one :S |
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Wait, there is more. For some reason, the last 2 weeks (after 2 weeks |
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running fine) 1 disk keeps dropping from my raid array in my server. |
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/dev/sdi just stops existing. Either the LSI controller, or the disk is |
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to blame, so the disk is now running from the primary port on the |
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motherbord. |
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Lots of broken stuff, in just a few short days. Luckly, my laptop still |
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works (for now). |
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Oliver |