When Technology Fails

[seventhsamurai]

I like my computer. We get along. I take care of it, and it returns the favour by, y'know, working. Until today, whereupon I tasted the pain of spontaneous-random error.
I think, after hours of troubleshooting, either the IDE or RAID controllers are dead/disable, and I can't take the drives out and slot them into another machine because the

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[lostparadise]

It must be the circle of life: I've just hammered out all the flaws in my new computer, and now yours has started to suffer.

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[seventhsamurai]

Ah, you finally managed to scrape together the cash for a new machine? What did you get?

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[lostparadise]

XP 2600, 512 RAM, Radeon 9600, 80 gig drive. It does the job well for a good price. :)

[iceowl]

Hrm.. this is not going to help you, and will probably annoy you a lot, but it's something you should know anyways, if you didn't already: the purpose of RAID is to be able to replace a hard drive that fails and have everything backed up on a second hard drive, so that your data can't fail unless you lose both drives.

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[seventhsamurai]

Thanks for the info - I'm not so worried about the drives themselves, as I am frustrated by not being able to access them. Trapped assignments and the like. But I should be able to get it into far more capable hands than mine by Tuesday, at least :)

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[iceowl]

I imagine the reason it doesn't work is because RAID requires at least two drives for striping. If one of them is dead, the other isn't going to co-operate. You probably need to figure out which hard drive failed, and replace it.

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[seventhsamurai]

Yeah, that makes sense; thought unfortunately I don't have a spare drive kicking around to test it with. Hopefully, I'll find out tomorrow, and I'm praying that if one of them happens to be dead, it's not the one with the important stuff on it ;)