Hardware problems should be over for now

regi

And once again, the freezer wins 'Most Valuable Piece of IT Equipment 2004'.

Ste-

Well Done Regi.

DMC

Cheers Regi!

sceptre

Good stuff Regi. Surprised you haven't just kicked the box by now.

Possibility of contract renewal in this highly paid boards.ie job draws ever closer.

Kudos and thanks to all involved in the surgery.

BuffyBot

I hope someone has brought it some Lucozade and grapes to speed it's recovery after the major surgery

Ronan|Raven

Originally posted by Regi
And once again, the freezer wins 'Most Valuable Piece of IT Equipment 2004'.

The old throw the hdd in an anti static bag and bang it in the freezer trick ?!

Good work onm getting her back running was getting bored.

Ivan

Thought that was only a temporary solution?

I just assumed he made some kind of snazzy hard drive out of a fridge. Thats what I'd do anyway.

Puck

Thanks for all your hard work.

halenger

Originally posted by Ronan|Raven
The old throw the hdd in an anti static bag and bang it in the freezer trick ?!

The what?!

longword

Originally posted by halenger
The what?!

He means ziplock bag of course.

Yes it's a temporary solution, but the objective was to recover data from the failing disk to populate its replacement (muppet doesn't do RAID).

Raskolnikov

Originally posted by Ivan

I just assumed he made some kind of snazzy hard drive out of a fridge. Thats what I'd do anyway.

Don't be ridiculous!

We all know that the best hard drives are made out of papier mache and twigs.

DRakE

Originally posted by Ronan|Raven
The old throw the hdd in an anti static bag and bang it in the freezer trick ?!

Good work onm getting her back running was getting bored.

if your hdd dies and you want to get data off it, can you bung it in a freezer to make it work again temporarily?

tuxy

Originally posted by DRakE
if your hdd dies and you want to get data off it, can you bung it in a freezer to make it work again temporarily?

sometimes it works yes

TomTom

But other time you just end up bunking your HDD onto a pan and having it with some chips.

mr_angry

Ever consider a fundraiser for new hardware?

yossarin

great stuff guys.
now, can we have a forum to put all the "boards is down" posts in

amp

I was a little surprised that boards wasn't running on a Raid 5 array (or even 51 mmmm). But then, boards has grown from humble beginings.

Hats off to Regi and Ecksor for getting it back. Of course the real hero here is the fridge who's kind cannot only cool beer, chocolate and pepsi max but can actually fix harddrives.



/me swoons

po0k

Of course you realise this means a pissup.

scsi disks don't come cheap, especially for the 15Krpm high capacity drives.

But I reckon enough could be raised to pay for it.


Also, is a record kept of when subscribers need to pay money?

regi

Muppet is missing the Dell RAID key unfortunately. All the hardware to do RAID is there, but we can't use it

Also, boards would definately not have come back this quickly without the assistance of Longword, who provided wizardry when it was needed. Feel free to say thanks to him

We're definately going to move the webserving part of boards back to troll.boards.ie, since it should be able to do RAID-5.

Dan

DeVore

We shouldnt need to do the same kind of fund raising as before as the money trickling in from the ads should cover the cost of a decent HD.
Thanks Longword (and Regi and Ecksor of course)...


DeV.

amp

As I have sort of said to Regi in a pm, I may be able to arrange a reconditioned raid key for muppet. I just need it's service tag.

Victor

Ampersand test.