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"CyberDroog" |
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07 Oct 2004 02:42:11 PM |
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One Of My SCSI Hard Drives Died |
And the only thing I lost was the recording of the third episode of the
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The poor thing was on a spanned volume, created just for the purpose of
using up some spare equipment. The system backs up all data automatically
whenever the system is shut down. I just hadn't shut it down after
recording that episode. Actually I usually run the job manually if I'm
going to walk away from the system for an extended period. I didn't even
do that. It's utter failure. Apparently I'm not quite neurotic enough
about redundancy.
Sure, it's being rebroadcast tonight at 5:00 (Central Time... 11:00
London). So I'll record it again. But it's just not the same electrons
that made up the original file. That one is gone for good and I feel
terrible.
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There are indeed a great many more things in life than money; and it is
money that gives us access to most of them.
- Terry Eagleton
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| User: "DaKitty" |
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| Title: Re: One Of My SCSI Hard Drives Died |
07 Oct 2004 11:53:15 PM |
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"CyberDroog" <CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote in message
news:v96bm0dnt3m8b1v2js3aocd1pvbc6ia8he@4ax.com...
And the only thing I lost was the recording of the third episode of the
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The poor thing was on a spanned volume, created just for the purpose of
using up some spare equipment. The system backs up all data automatically
whenever the system is shut down. I just hadn't shut it down after
recording that episode. Actually I usually run the job manually if I'm
going to walk away from the system for an extended period. I didn't even
do that. It's utter failure. Apparently I'm not quite neurotic enough
about redundancy.
Sure, it's being rebroadcast tonight at 5:00 (Central Time... 11:00
London). So I'll record it again. But it's just not the same electrons
that made up the original file. That one is gone for good and I feel
terrible.
burry it in the back yard, with a little broken CD tombstone! ;)
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| User: "Kirby Cook" |
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| Title: Re: One Of My SCSI Hard Drives Died |
07 Oct 2004 02:53:21 PM |
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CyberDroog wrote:
And the only thing I lost was the recording of the third episode of the
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The poor thing was on a spanned volume, created just for the purpose of
using up some spare equipment. The system backs up all data automatically
whenever the system is shut down. I just hadn't shut it down after
recording that episode. Actually I usually run the job manually if I'm
going to walk away from the system for an extended period. I didn't even
do that. It's utter failure. Apparently I'm not quite neurotic enough
about redundancy.
Sure, it's being rebroadcast tonight at 5:00 (Central Time... 11:00
London). So I'll record it again. But it's just not the same electrons
that made up the original file. That one is gone for good and I feel
terrible.
--
There are indeed a great many more things in life than money; and it is
money that gives us access to most of them.
- Terry Eagleton
Sorry to hear it. I knew a guy once with a talent for hard disks.
He'd take the cover off, touch the circuit card, look at it thoughfully,
poke and prod something, put it back together, and it would come up as
of old. I'd look at him and say, "But what did you *do* to it?" And
he'd shrug and say, "Nothing." He built quite a reputation doing that
on some high-profile systems. You might try it.
Kirby
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: One Of My SCSI Hard Drives Died |
07 Oct 2004 04:44:41 PM |
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:53:21 -0700, Kirby Cook <kirbywmcook@netscape.net>
wrote:
Sorry to hear it. I knew a guy once with a talent for hard disks.
He'd take the cover off, touch the circuit card, look at it thoughfully,
poke and prod something, put it back together, and it would come up as
of old. I'd look at him and say, "But what did you *do* to it?" And
he'd shrug and say, "Nothing." He built quite a reputation doing that
on some high-profile systems. You might try it.
Heh, I already have. The first thing I always do when a piece of equipment
dies is take it apart. In this case the physical mechanism seems to be
working. I'm guessing something on the controller board is fried.
Meanwhile, my wife has told me that she doesn't even want to think of what
might happen if *she* died at home...
"Honey, I don't know if you can hear me from where you are now... You know
I'm not a doctor, of course, but it really looks to me like it was some
sort of brain hemorrhage."
--
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by
the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the
government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be
enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this
country is closely connected with this.
- Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the U.S.A., 1921
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| User: "Kirby Cook" |
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| Title: Re: One Of My SCSI Hard Drives Died |
07 Oct 2004 09:50:01 PM |
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CyberDroog wrote:
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:53:21 -0700, Kirby Cook <kirbywmcook@netscape.net>
wrote:
Sorry to hear it. I knew a guy once with a talent for hard disks.
He'd take the cover off, touch the circuit card, look at it thoughfully,
poke and prod something, put it back together, and it would come up as
of old. I'd look at him and say, "But what did you *do* to it?" And
he'd shrug and say, "Nothing." He built quite a reputation doing that
on some high-profile systems. You might try it.
Heh, I already have. The first thing I always do when a piece of equipment
dies is take it apart. In this case the physical mechanism seems to be
working. I'm guessing something on the controller board is fried.
Meanwhile, my wife has told me that she doesn't even want to think of what
might happen if *she* died at home...
Whoo boy, it must be my mood or something, but I'm *still* cracking up
over this. I haven't had a laugh like this in ages! Thanks.
Kirby
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| User: "dennis" |
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| Title: Re: One Of My SCSI Hard Drives Died |
07 Oct 2004 01:29:07 PM |
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 19:42:11 GMT, CyberDroog
<CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote:
Sure, it's being rebroadcast tonight at 5:00 (Central Time... 11:00
London). So I'll record it again. But it's just not the same electrons
that made up the original file. That one is gone for good and I feel
terrible.
somehow that seems appropriate for that show.
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: One Of My SCSI Hard Drives Died |
07 Oct 2004 03:41:41 PM |
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They usually come with a 5 year warranty though.
Gotta backup!
"CyberDroog" <CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote in message
news:v96bm0dnt3m8b1v2js3aocd1pvbc6ia8he@4ax.com...
And the only thing I lost was the recording of the third episode of the
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The poor thing was on a spanned volume, created just for the purpose of
using up some spare equipment. The system backs up all data automatically
whenever the system is shut down. I just hadn't shut it down after
recording that episode. Actually I usually run the job manually if I'm
going to walk away from the system for an extended period. I didn't even
do that. It's utter failure. Apparently I'm not quite neurotic enough
about redundancy.
Sure, it's being rebroadcast tonight at 5:00 (Central Time... 11:00
London). So I'll record it again. But it's just not the same electrons
that made up the original file. That one is gone for good and I feel
terrible.
--
There are indeed a great many more things in life than money; and it is
money that gives us access to most of them.
- Terry Eagleton
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: One Of My SCSI Hard Drives Died |
07 Oct 2004 04:53:38 PM |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:41:41 -0600, "Franz Bestuchev"
<fbestuchev@hotmail.com> wrote:
They usually come with a 5 year warranty though.
This drive is at least six years past that.
It's amazing to ponder how much this drive cost when it was new. It cost
nearly $2000 at the time. Not me... I scavenged it.
--
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live
at the expense of everybody else.
- Fredric Bastiat
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