The new radinfo server is now up and running, and should be considerably faster than the old one. I think everything should work, but if anybody happens to notice any breakage, just drop me a line.
User to BIOS: Where’s the drive?
The new laptop drive arrived today from Newegg, a Western Digital Scorpio 120GB drive. Should have been an easy replacement. Pop the old drive out, remove from the bracket and pop the new one in, re-attach the blade adapter and stick it back into the laptop.
Wrong. sigh.
Put the new drive in, power it up and go to the BIOS screen to make sure the drive is identified, but for some reason the BIOS reports no primary hard drive.
So now the question is: Do I have a bad drive, or is the adapter/motherboard pooched?
Fortunately the laptop I use at work is the same model, so I’ll just head in to work, grab it and bring it home so I can try the new drive out in it. If the drive works there, then that points to the laptop. If it doesn’t work, then it’s a call to Newegg to see about an exchange.
Hunting for ME LaZerte ’87 grads
Fellow grad Adrienne Barclay is looking for our contact information to send out reunion news. If any of you happen to stumble upon this space, drop her a line (Abarclay (at) shaw.ca) with your email and any other contact info you wish to divulge. You can also send an email to melazertereunion1987 (at) hotmail.com or just leave a comment here and I’ll pass it along. There’s also a Google Group for our class that you can join and post messages to
Show yourselves!
radinfo v3 almost ready
Just about ready to bring the new server online. I think I’ve got all the data migrated over and as far as I can see everything seems to be operating properly. Some last minute testing to do and then Monday I should be able to swap the servers. The new box definitely performs much better than the existing server so I’m looking forward to getting it running.
Dead hard drive
The hard drive in the wife’s laptop up and died on us tonight. Just like that. It was working fine a few hours ago and then I put it in hibernate mode. She went to turn it back on and got nothing but a BSOD. The drive was making those characteristic clicking and whirring sounds of a dead hard drive, so it sounds like it’s time for a new one. Sadly, the last back up was from a few months ago just before Christmas, so there’s going to be some data loss.
Laptop drives are surprisingly cheap. Over at Newegg a 160GB drive can be had for $120. Surprising just how small these things are.