Archive for August, 2006

August 30, 2006

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Replaced another failed IBM 18Gb DXHS18Y drive in castor. Just like before, I disconnect all but the failed drive, insert another drive of same capacity, boot knoppix, used "dd" to copy the drive, set the id of the new drive to that of the old drive, reconnect other drives, and ...

August 12, 2006

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

MAD-Office drive died today - now I know it was a bad drive after all. So it lasted all of what, 2 weeks ? So I finished rebuild of MAD-Athlon2 and reinstalled that one. MAD-Office sits at the lab now.