md0 : active raid5 sdd1[1] sdi1[0] sde1[5] sdc1[4] sdg1[3] sdh1[2]
2441919680 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]
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Enough said
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Easier than it looked
Friday, January 16th, 2009So far, the rebuild process is going along well. Later on the 14th, I went through the hardware on the system, thinking perhaps a controller had died, or a power splitter had failed. Neither was the case, as I had forgotten that I don’t have any controllers with only two disks plugged in, and the box isn’t actually using any splitters at all. I went through the whole thing and cleaned it out and checked all of the connections, and swapped a few SATA cables that seemed to be iffy just to be safe.
Oh, fun.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Woke up this morning, and my fileserver had emailed me this:
md0 : active raid5 sdh1[6](F) sdd1[5] sdc1[4] sdf1[3] sdg1[2] sdi1[7](F)
2441919680 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/4] [__UUUU]
Looks like I get a trial-by-fire of MD RAID recovery tonight, once I figure out what broke.
Q8200 Overclocking Results
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Not bad for an affordable motherboard (Gigabyte EP45-DS3L, $85 or so after rebate), some cheap Kingston DDR2-800 RAM, and a $30 heatsink. Core voltage is only 1.28V – I’m not going to bother pushing it harder because at this point the RAM is already overclocked and I can’t run the RAM any slower than the current speed. I’m happy with the speed, a 3.1GHz quad-core Core2 is quite the upgrade from my 2.5GHz dual-core Opteron.
One of these days I’ll probably slap a new video card in here (current one is getting a bit old, 7900GS) but I’m in no rush. Probably when the next-gen midrange gets cheap.
The things I own, keep breaking.
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Today, not long after getting home, the power blinked – just long enough to shut down the TV and a couple of computers, including the media center (which has a crappy power supply so that’s no surprise) and my desktop (which was a surprise). Every desktop system I have aside from the HTPC uses relatively high-end power supplies, which I’ve noticed have the side benefit of keeping the system on a bit longer in the event of a short gap in AC power.
After quite a few futile attempts to get my desktop to boot again, I’ve concluded it has now developed a nasty hardware failure somewhere. The random nature (it hangs anywhere from before POST completes to after logging into Windows) makes me suspect the motherboard, but I suppose the power supply could be at fault as well.
It’s really a pain because I really don’t have much time to sit down and diagnose why it’s broken, but at the same time I don’t have a ton of money laying around to throw at problems. I’m actually somewhat tempted to just let the damn thing sit until I can afford to do the upgrade I was planning on – a Nehalem-based quad-core Intel setup.