Flat Earth?!

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Sat Nov 22 21:36:03 2003

For those of you who may have wondered where I'd gone, I really didn't
fall off the face of the Earth (and contrary to what some folks might
believe, the Earth still isn't flat).

I'm currently recovering from a multi-drive failure in my RAID-5 array. I
was very, very lucky in that only one of the drives died a horrible death,
with the 2nd having a semi-recoverable error. The second drive failed
before the array could reconstruct itself, and my spare drive was already
in use. Had I been running an OS where I didn't have the source, I
probably would have lost all of my data (roughly 25-30GB currently), but
since I had the source to the RAID software, I think I've managed to
recover most everything. Let this be a warning to anyone else with a nice
RAID setup who also doesn't keep current backups... My DAT drive died
about 6 months ago, and Sony can't seem to cough up a service manual.

[If anyone has any surplus DLTtape IIIXT tapes sitting around collecting
dust, feel free to contact me off-list. I managed to collect a DLT2000
drive right before my DAT drive died that still hasn't attracted the
proper tapes. I'd also like to find an inexpensive source for new or low
mileage 4/9/18GB UW SCSI drives, as I think it may be best for me to
replace the entire lot of old 9GB drives that made up my RAID-5 array.]

I also have a number of things that still need to get sent out to folks.
If anyone is expecting anything from me and doesn't hear from me soon,
contact me off-list and remind me.

-Toth
Received on Sat Nov 22 2003 - 21:36:03 GMT