Technology Woes
May. 4th, 2004 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournMy home server's boot drive failed, so my internet connectivity has been spotty at home. I'm discovering that it is officially 'damn old'. I finally found a legacy-style power supply to replace the noisy-ass one that has been whining away in my office for months--the fan was off-axis or something--, but my attempt to buy a replacement HD has run into a snag: all new HDs are now ATA-2--"that's one betta, idn't it!"--and my system only supports ATA-1. I'm inquiring about a BIOS upgrade while I'm at it, but I don't see that fixing an old chipset to support newer drives. Oh, and the new powersupply doesn't have enough power connectors for 4 HDs and a SCSI CD, so I need to buy some Y-adapters.
So, tomorrow I'll make a trek out to Re PC and pick up a refurbished drive. I really ought to send in the broken Maxtor 15 GB and Seagate 20 GB drives in for repair, but that takes a really long time for them to come back. Still, it would be useful to have spares for the next time one of those drives dies--its a RAID server running 24/7 so one of them they tends to die every year.
Eh, it's a hobby and maintaining a RAID server means not having to deal with main system backups. Besides, it keeps me up-to-date on hardware issues, although apparently not that up-to-date :> This server was originally used back when I was at my game company, Charybdis Enterprises, and was upgraded with one of our AMD dev box motherboards at one point. That makes it a 1997 vintage machine.
What do I keep on this machine you ask? Well, lots of various install packages, backups of personal files, and it runs a Perforce source control server for my home projects and some source code I've held on to for years, as well as acting as a firewall for my home network. Ironically, my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hdan recently asked about getting some of the source from the Charybdis days that is still sitting on the server--albeit a little hard to access right now without a boot drive.
We'll, I'm off to pick upjeliza so we can go catch Melissa Ferrick playing at the Tractor Tavern this evening!
Update: Turns out it might have been the BIOS after all since the drive was over 32 MB in size. I ordered the BIOS upgrade anyhow since the one I'm using was last updated in 1998!
So, tomorrow I'll make a trek out to Re PC and pick up a refurbished drive. I really ought to send in the broken Maxtor 15 GB and Seagate 20 GB drives in for repair, but that takes a really long time for them to come back. Still, it would be useful to have spares for the next time one of those drives dies--its a RAID server running 24/7 so one of them they tends to die every year.
Eh, it's a hobby and maintaining a RAID server means not having to deal with main system backups. Besides, it keeps me up-to-date on hardware issues, although apparently not that up-to-date :> This server was originally used back when I was at my game company, Charybdis Enterprises, and was upgraded with one of our AMD dev box motherboards at one point. That makes it a 1997 vintage machine.
What do I keep on this machine you ask? Well, lots of various install packages, backups of personal files, and it runs a Perforce source control server for my home projects and some source code I've held on to for years, as well as acting as a firewall for my home network. Ironically, my friend
hdan recently asked about getting some of the source from the Charybdis days that is still sitting on the server--albeit a little hard to access right now without a boot drive.We'll, I'm off to pick up
jeliza so we can go catch Melissa Ferrick playing at the Tractor Tavern this evening!Update: Turns out it might have been the BIOS after all since the drive was over 32 MB in size. I ordered the BIOS upgrade anyhow since the one I'm using was last updated in 1998!
