mdlbear | Hardware hacking - trying not to use the axe (Reply)

Upgrading the disk and memory on my file server has been on my List Of Things To Do for a long time now, so having finally assembled 4GB of RAM, 3 500GB SATA drives, and a free afternoon in the same place, I prepared to do battle.

I think it came out a draw.

After going through a goodly fraction of the combinatoric space implied by the above plus three power supplies and two ethernet cards, I finally determined that the reason it was failing to boot was...

A bad SATA cable!

Maybe a marginal power supply, too. And did I mention the hunt for the four special hard-drive mounting screws that eventually turned up on my desk.

I also determined that almost all the noise in the office is coming from the CPU fan on my router. :(

Naturally, I haven't had time to run any of the errands I had scheduled for this afternoon, let alone trying to upgrade the server to Lenny and pull out the IDE drive it's currently running with. Or take a walk. Or deal with email, or the inkjet printer (which is still waiting for the server upgrade). And did I mention that the server isn't recognizing its Gbit network card? That's waiting for the upgrade, too.

And of course the LJ posts and email that have been hanging fire for a while now...

I am a grumpy bear.