HDD: Hard Disk Drive

Yay, I bought a new USB 2.0 PCI card and everything works fine now!

Now I can begin editing my video of the Venice trip.

HDD: Hard Disk Dingus

As you read yesterday, I just installed a hard disk drive on my server. I thought everything was OK, but when I tried to capture some stuff with Adobe Premiere, I got another bunch of I/O errors.

As it turns out, there’s something wrong with the USB 2.0 PCI Card I also installed to connect the new drive (and the heat thing from yesterday has nothing to do with it). Now the drive is working fine on the server’s old USB 1 port, unfortunately that’s much, muuuch too slow for video editing (or even viewing). So now I have to find out what’s wrong with this PCI Card. (Sigh) If I fix it tommorrow, I’ll have spent 3 days just on installing a disk.

To make things worse, I experienced a weird crash on my PC and lost my Firefox profile with many settings. Now that’s a pain in the ***. Luckily I at least found a backup of the bookmarks.

The road goes ever on and on…

HDD: Hot Disk Drive

Unfortunately I spent most of the day trying to install a new external 500GB harddisk on my Linux home server. After I bought it and plugged it in, all went well. However, when I started copying over all the files from my old hard disk (which is going to move to my father), I suddenly got I/O errors…

Turns out the disks (presumably) got a bit too hot. I stacked them on top of eachother, in a small space, which apparently isn’t such a good idea, especially when you’re going to copy almost 250 GB of files.

So I spent most of the day and evening trying to fix them. I managed to fix the new disk by reformatting and repartitioning a few times, with different programs (fdisk, cfdisk, even PartitionMagic on Windows), but I couldn’t do this with the old one since it had data.

Finally I found a solution, which is to plug the old disk to a Windows PC (which for some reason can still read it), and move all the files to the server from there. A long, painful process,  which is running now and will probably take the rest of the night.

Long story short: Don’t stack harddisks in a small space, they don’t like that!