After the crash...

[mdlbear]

Finally more-or-less back together after Thursday night's RAID crash at work. (Loyal readers may remember that our sysadmin was able to restore a backup from 4-29, which was a week old but better than nothing.) Restoring the CVS tree was a piece of cake -- I've been working in a secondary home directory on my desktop machine, and there were only a few files changed because things had been pretty-well frozen in anticipation of Thursday's demos (which finished up a few hours before the crash). There was a really bad moment when I snarfed up four days worth of email and then couldn't see it; turned out to be a couple of old config files. OK, gnus is a pretty odd mail reader to begin with.

Then it turned out that something had corrupted my shiny new USB drive's partition table. We are not going to trust USB drives very much; I had trouble with the other one, too, when I transferred the Debian mirror. They seem not to like really long transfers.

Looks like I managed to do four of the eight to-do items I had lined up for the weekend. The easy four, of course.

Comments

[eleccham.livejournal.com]

Not even based on bias - but I fairly regularly throw gig to two-gig files around on my external drives; I've got both a OneTouch combo and a 5000XT drive.

Admittedly, I'm usually using them via FireWire, not USB.

[mdlbear]

Yeah, some of my coworkers do, too. Odd.

[mdlbear]

Oddly enough, the drive apparently just wanted to be power-cycled. I had already started to reformat the partition I was using heavily at that point; not clear whether it would have been OK if I'd just power-cycled when I first started noticing the problem.

It's a 300GB Maxtor One-Touch II, BTW. I've generally been quite happy with Maxtor drives, and we use them extensively all around the lab. I'll keep an eye on it.

[eleccham.livejournal.com]

Lemme know if you have problems with it - and of what sort. I know some of the folks who work on them (I think - I'm not positive they're still doing it).