[Tfug] Check file system and restore array

[Timothy D. Lenz]

I'll have to check what exactly it says it says next time I have it up. 
thought I would be working on it today with the rains moving about 
because my outside project is welding a cat cage. But turns out I have 
to do some running about.

I dug through my drives and found 3 WD 40Gb IDE's. I used them before on 
an older version of this system. I'm thinking I will pull the sata's for 
now, put the IDE's in and install linux fresh with raid. That way raid 
is set up with a stock kernel instead of needed a custom built with raid 
modules compiled in. It also gets linux updated and maybe cleans up any 
other stuff that may have creeped in by  just updating. Then I'll try to 
grab the programs and config files, etc. from the sata drives, and try 
to move any stored data from the sda/b pair to the sdc/d pair. Then 
reformat the sda/b pair and switch to ext4 at the same time. currently 
using ext3 and from what I've heard, ext4 would be better because of thr 
large files with recordings. I will continue to have vdr break 
recordings into 2Gb files because it's handy for moving them around. 
Not sure if I should keep the boot/os partition in ext3 or move it to 4 
as well. Sometimes newer file systems are not as good on smaller 
partitions with small files and the boot will be around 40Gb. Looks like 
my DVR will be down awhile.

The power supply I had used was a Cooler Master 550w. Not top of the 
line, but didn't seem to have any bad reports. The replacement is an 
antec. The first 2 seagate drives came from Newegg and the second set 
cam from Elliots. The first drive to fail was one of the Newegg drives, 
but after that I don't know which from where. I did find out after the 
first drive went down that the seagate 500Gb drives had a real high 
failure rate that was latter fixed with a firmware update. The failures 
tended to happen after a power down/up. So very likely the drives where 
from batches with old firmware. I dealt directly with  seagate on all 
the returns, so they should have the fix.

On 2/10/2013 12:38 PM, Bexley Hall wrote:
> Hi Timothy,
>
> On 2/9/2013 5:52 PM, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
>> Grub as always given an error about the floppy at boot. It does a drive
>> seek, then says something like fd0 error, then boots from the hard
>
> Is it an *error* or an informative message?  And, you are actually
> hearing/seeing the drive spin up and seek?
>