[plug] [OT] ever had one of those days...

[Ben Jensz]

.. when everything seems to be working fine and you're finally getting 
somewhere, but then everything comes to a screeching halt.

That was me this morning, finally happy that everything is going fine.  
Spent the last couple of days transferring over data from old computers 
to a clients new server  (Linux/Samba) dealing with dodgy hardware and 
the like with these old machines.  I was finishing off transferring the 
data off of the last computer this morning and it all of a sudden 
freezes in the middle of file copying.  Thinking its probably the dodgy 
computer, I restart and try again.  This time it comes up with an 
"input/output error" when trying to copy data to the server.  Go into 
where the server is housed to be confronted with a "lovely" array of 
orange lights from the hard disk bays.  I think you can guess what the 
first thing I said was....

Out of 6 drives, 4 are now classed as being "defunct" by the RAID/SCSI 
controller, only one is online and appears to be functioning (its a 
system drive and it boots halfway into Linux before Linux complains 
about /home no longer existing - t'was the 3 drive RAID 5 array) and the 
hot spare is attempting to be rebuilt into the array with the one 
functioning drive (one of the system drives), but it looks like its 
having a really hard time in doing so.

*sighs*


/ Ben