the game server is running a raid 1 system, which is two mirrored disks, so if one breaks the other one takes over with no down time. this has been working for a several years, but the drives are getting noisy/wearing out, so it was time to replace them.
what started out as an easy pull/replace, turned into brain surgery.
i purchased western digital wd20ears drives, and what a f'in disaster!
they are the latest 4k partition drives, and winxp just dont like them at all!! DONT BUY THEM!!!!!
i ended up taking one back, having to eat the other one. and ended up making a few other changes at the same time.
the server is cloning over the drive now, and should be back up some time tomorrow. in the meantime i transferred the busiest servers (kf and ts3) over to an alternate box until the dedicated server is back up and running, hopefully tomorrow.
what started out as an easy pull/replace, turned into brain surgery.
i purchased western digital wd20ears drives, and what a f'in disaster!
they are the latest 4k partition drives, and winxp just dont like them at all!! DONT BUY THEM!!!!!
i ended up taking one back, having to eat the other one. and ended up making a few other changes at the same time.
the server is cloning over the drive now, and should be back up some time tomorrow. in the meantime i transferred the busiest servers (kf and ts3) over to an alternate box until the dedicated server is back up and running, hopefully tomorrow.