Category: Computers
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New York can’t do on foot…
Arrived at JFK last night, on time pretty much, though delayed by the huge queues at passport control. Driving north (JFK, Whitestone bridge, Hutchinson River Parkway for those that care) though was horrid. Its the Marathon in New York today and it appears that as soon as people want to get round NYC on foot…
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Router/Firewall “hard drive”
The 3.5″ 4GB IDE drive in my router/firewall is unhappy. It is making more noise than it used to and it seems slower to use, though there are no errors in dmesg. For a while now I have wanted to remove the hard drive and run solid state storage on it, I could run fanless…
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Bloomin’ hard disks
How can it be that a disk runs just fine, with no problems or reported errors, but when you add another disk into the system, set up software RAID1 and raidhotadd that the first disk, the one thats been fine for ages but you want to just b sensible about, how is it that the…
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Welcome to Morgins 🙂
Well, after a bit of playing with add-in VGA and USB cards to try and get the IBM Netfinity 4000r installed I had to admit defeat. Having installed a base Linux OS on the hard disk the BIOSes virus warning wanted to tell me the boot sector had changed (I know, I just loaded GRUB!)…
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Keyboardless install
So, the IBM Netfinity 4000r off of EBay turns up – rah! Problem is it doesn’t have PS/2 connectors or a video out – it has a proprietary IBM thing I don’t have the adapter for. A PCI graphics card works fine though and the system boots of CD, but I can’t find a live…
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Intel RAID Controllers *grrr*
So yes, the problem that caused Avoriaz’s RAID to die is a known issue with the Intel SRCU31 card I have. Intel kindly produce a “how to recover your RAID” document to help you out. Step one, upgrade to latest firmware – okay, easy… or so you think. The Intel RAID detection DOS app thing…
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Avoriaz latest
Sorry for the lack of update on Avoriaz, but no news is good news this time. The new SATA RAID has been installed and is working fine. I have the old SCSI RAID and RAID card at home now, so I will attempt data recovery probably tonight. If that goes well a data sync will…
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Hardware Hates Me
So, yes, given the issues with Avoriaz being down I thought I’d buy a new pair of disks and a controller, install a new OS and swap the lot. Then I can bring back the old RAID for data recovery. A fine plan, but something about the two new SATA disks or the SATA controller…
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Cheap Dell Servers
This morning pointed me to this url where Dell were selling PE1600SC IDE servers for 99quid (max 2 per person, subject to availability). You could add a dual CPU for 210quid more, or just buy two and combine the parts 😉 I guess it got popular, ‘cops Dell have pulled it. I ordered two, lets…
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iBook dual screen 🙂
So yes, I have an iBook. Its nice, I like it a lot, but the video mirroring limitation is annoying as it means I can’t really use the iBook as a desktop replacement. I mentioned this to at the weekend and he peered at me curiously and said “sure you can due dual display, just…