Thu, 16 Feb 2006

Installing Disks...

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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Link(s) of the Day

Stuff other people found on the internet and thought they should show to me, honest ;-)

http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/humor-site/medical-acronyms.htm: A dictionary of medical slang, doctors' slang and medical acronyms - some are very very comedy. Yes, I've been watching Scrubs lately...
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/092105/someone-with-a-different-opinion.gif: Someone on the internet may have a different opinion to you. I don't know who put this up, but it made me laugh. This is probably a link I'll just keep on sharing with people, as the need arises. It goes nicely with the waaahmbulance link.
http://www.greenmanhumming.com/html/zoukornaments/: I've slipped a few days behind in my whistle practice, due to being away for two weeks. This site gave me a few ideas about ornamentation and may inspire me to break out and tune up my mandolin this evening.

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