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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Wouldn't you know it.... Just when things were looking up again, it would appear that I have lost the hard drive in the Frozen Nehi. It had reported all it's completed work, had downloaded some new Cuda tasks when I left for work this morning, and was starting to chew away on them. Rebooted a few times, and the IDE buss was locking up. Thought it might have been the mobo, but tossed in a spare drive I have, and it booted and bios found that one. Put the old one back in place, and the bios won't find it. I'll have to decide if I want to try the old trick of subbing the control board from the new drive onto the old one and see if I get lucky, or just put in the new drive and start from scratch.... More sighs from the kitties.... Meowwwwwwww. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Cruncher-American Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 1513 Credit: 370,893,186 RAC: 340 |
Soemhow, "Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!" seems more approppriate than "Meowwwwwww". |
Jack Zhang Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 206 Credit: 6,142,449 RAC: 0 |
First, get the new controller, then get Spinrite to rescue the data and move it to a new drive. What if Fiction was Fact and Fact was Fiction and vice versa? |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I put the little cockroach in the freezer for about 20 minutes, and then when I booted, I could hear a faint click from the drive every 3 or 4 seconds... Does not look good. And I really did not expect this....it's a Seagate ES series drive. Now that it's warmed back up to room temperature, I can head a faint click click raspy raspy click click if I put me ear right up to it. I think it's a goner. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Xen Send message Joined: 22 Jul 00 Posts: 86 Credit: 2,846,236 RAC: 0 |
I feel your pain! I've had this happen to myself from time to time ::tosses some goodluck catnip to the kitties:: Nobody is nobody. Everyone has something to offer |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Soemhow, "Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!" seems more approppriate than "Meowwwwwww". Actually, I have been become a little infamous for using a number of off color terms too liberally on the forums.... Trying to refrain. LOL. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Xen Send message Joined: 22 Jul 00 Posts: 86 Credit: 2,846,236 RAC: 0 |
Soemhow, "Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!" seems more approppriate than "Meowwwwwww". I must chuckle @ this it's MY only way to cope w/bad things sir =) Nobody is nobody. Everyone has something to offer |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Maybe I'll just have to try to put a positive spin on it and pretend I am building a brand new rig!! Yeah....that's it!! Right.......LOL. I don't think swapping the control board is gonna save this one. But maybe...the platters are spinning up. I dunno....just pissed right now. Gonna go to bed before I toss the thing out the front door. I will probably order a couple of new drives air freight for Friday in case I DO decide to try the board swap and end up with two dead drives. Looks like....'sorry wingys'. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Ianab Send message Joined: 11 Jun 08 Posts: 732 Credit: 20,635,586 RAC: 5 |
"I could hear a faint click from the drive every 3 or 4 seconds..." It's a paperweight... Or a new fridge magnet, a shiny window decoration, and 25c of aluminium at the metal recyle depot. Ian |
MarkJ Send message Joined: 17 Feb 08 Posts: 1139 Credit: 80,854,192 RAC: 5 |
Maybe I'll just have to try to put a positive spin on it and pretend I am building a brand new rig!! Well you can upgrade to a 1, 1.5 or 2Tb drive. An excuse for a bigger/faster drive. Raid setup perhaps? Well you did want a positive spin on it. LOL BOINC blog |
Lint trap Send message Joined: 30 May 03 Posts: 871 Credit: 28,092,319 RAC: 0 |
Gonna go to bed before I toss the thing out the front door. Don't do that! (toss it) The way things are going around here lately, you'll probably hit a passing Police car!! lol Martin |
nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
in heaven George Carlin will give you permission for the words you really want to use...lol |
[KWSN]John Galt 007 Send message Joined: 9 Nov 99 Posts: 2444 Credit: 25,086,197 RAC: 0 |
Mark...feel your pain...some intelligent person hit a pole 2 nights ago in the snow...came to work and the work pharm was down, electricity went out about 7:30 PM for 40 minutes...restarted the pharm and my Q9450 HD was making an awful racket and wouldn't boot....let it spin up and warm up (it was about 50F in the back of the shop) and it came back alive... If it happens again I am going to paperweight it and install x64 on that rig... Clk2HlpSetiCty:::PayIt4ward |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Mark...feel your pain...some intelligent person hit a pole 2 nights ago in the snow...came to work and the work pharm was down, electricity went out about 7:30 PM for 40 minutes...restarted the pharm and my Q9450 HD was making an awful racket and wouldn't boot....let it spin up and warm up (it was about 50F in the back of the shop) and it came back alive... Backup anything you wanna save NOW...LOL. I need to learn about RAID setups. How many drives do I need to retain all data if one dies? Do they all need to be identical drives? Can I convert a current single drive setup (as in my daily driver) to a RAID config without reloading everything? As the Frozen Nehi's HD apparently is a brick, I'll probably try to get it going this weekend from scratch with the new spare I have.... But I should look into RAID going forward. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
AndyW Send message Joined: 23 Oct 02 Posts: 5862 Credit: 10,957,677 RAC: 18 |
That's a noise I got fed up of hearing myself, so I went raid mirror - and ironically haven't had a drive fail since LOL. It's almost as if it's laughing at me for spending the extra money raiding. If I hadn't done it though, you can bet the drive would have failed by now! |
HAL9000 Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57 |
For my personal machines I have used RAID0 since whenever 60GB drives were "a big drive" & never had one fail while in this configuration. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
I need to learn about RAID setups. I know this is a contrarian view, but I see a high correlation between RAID systems and drive failures. Maybe it's just the idea that having five or six drives makes them more likely to fail. ... and I've had far more instances where I needed an old file back than the copy that would be faithfully reproduced across the RAID (even RAID 1). What I tend to do instead is replicate important directories (or even complete drives) onto other drives on other systems. That's particularly interesting for what you do Mark, because all you really need is the BOINC data directory to resurrect a machine on a new HD. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Well... First things first...I gotta get the Frozen Nehi back up and crunching...and it's gonna be a long process. But first I have a quandary. I have two copies of XP x64. And I have forgotten which one was loaded on the Nehi and which one was loaded on the 920 rig. Is there a place in XP on the 920 rig that I can view the key that was used for that install so I don't try to reuse that copy? "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Found it with the Magic Jelly Bean keyfinder. Now I know which copy is which. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
nemesis Send message Joined: 12 Oct 99 Posts: 1408 Credit: 35,074,350 RAC: 0 |
"Found it with the Magic Jelly Bean keyfinder." Vince Schlomo does the commercials for that right? "you're gonna love my jellybeans..." |
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