Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
16 02 2006
I am beginning to loath PC hardware more and more. When I was younger and had the time and inclination, I was happy to while away hours poking at stuff to see if I could get it to work. Nowadays, my requirements are generally more than just making a computer work - I use computers as tools to do other things - so I generally just want them to work.
I installed some more disks in my fileserver last night; the same one that required multiple reboots, reseating of the RAM and resetting of the BIOS before if would even boot again.
This time, I got 2 more disks in without too much trouble - until I tried to read them, that is. One worked flawlessly. The other was recognised by a garbled string of nonsense by the BIOS, which then hung. Rebooting and fiddling with the cables made it work - a bit - but trying a read/write test resulting in lots of errors.
I suspect the cable I have is not good enough, or has a slightly loose connection on the second IDE connector, or something. It irks me that I have to spend more time debugging this when all I really want to do is have more disk space - which I've paid for.
Oh well. I guess if I really wanted trouble-free disk I'd get some managed storage - but I can't really justify the expense of that for my house ... yet ... :-)
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