Things That Suck
11/07/05 00:01 |
General
Yesterday I went into my office at home and I was
getting something out of the great
"closet-o-computer-misc" and I haapened to look at
the monitor connected to my file server. As much as I would come to hate this moment in my day later on I saw a message about "hdd interrupt lost" and said some colorful phrase then continued to get ready to go out to dinner with my wife (We had setup a "date night" thing). I
pushed the concern out of my mind and continued on with the night. Then when I got to work I connected to my server at home and began an
fsck on the drive in question (which coincidentally is the one I store all my data). fsck is the program *nix machines use to check hard
drives and partitions to make sure everything is OK; it is the windows equivelant of scandisk. Now when you invoke fsck you can tell it to
do lots of things and I elected to ask it to give me verbose output and automatically fix anyhting it came across. I hit enter waited about
30 minutes and began to cry. fsck did nothing, I mean nothing I hit enter and nothing. With verbose turned on that's the equivelant of
feeding a dollar bill into a vending machine and the machine disappearing. I have backups, of course but I HATE ever having to use them. So
after I told my wife this morning about everything that happened we went to check and make sure the backup of our financial data was current.
This would have gone without incident if the date had not been wrong on the server so instead of us thinking we had the latest money file we
thought we had the file from March. It all worked out in the end. I rebooted the machine and was able to run one last backup before he hard
drive started the click of death. I had seen a deal on www.digg.com for some cheap EIDE hard drives so I
beat-feet on over to tigerdirect (I'm not linking them because I hate them) and purchased a 160GB hard drive that is about 40 dollars after
a mail-in rebate.
the monitor connected to my file server. As much as I would come to hate this moment in my day later on I saw a message about "hdd interrupt lost" and said some colorful phrase then continued to get ready to go out to dinner with my wife (We had setup a "date night" thing). I
pushed the concern out of my mind and continued on with the night. Then when I got to work I connected to my server at home and began an
fsck on the drive in question (which coincidentally is the one I store all my data). fsck is the program *nix machines use to check hard
drives and partitions to make sure everything is OK; it is the windows equivelant of scandisk. Now when you invoke fsck you can tell it to
do lots of things and I elected to ask it to give me verbose output and automatically fix anyhting it came across. I hit enter waited about
30 minutes and began to cry. fsck did nothing, I mean nothing I hit enter and nothing. With verbose turned on that's the equivelant of
feeding a dollar bill into a vending machine and the machine disappearing. I have backups, of course but I HATE ever having to use them. So
after I told my wife this morning about everything that happened we went to check and make sure the backup of our financial data was current.
This would have gone without incident if the date had not been wrong on the server so instead of us thinking we had the latest money file we
thought we had the file from March. It all worked out in the end. I rebooted the machine and was able to run one last backup before he hard
drive started the click of death. I had seen a deal on www.digg.com for some cheap EIDE hard drives so I
beat-feet on over to tigerdirect (I'm not linking them because I hate them) and purchased a 160GB hard drive that is about 40 dollars after
a mail-in rebate.
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