On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:57 PM, vamythguy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vamythguy@gmail.com">vamythguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The Rig:<br><br>All of my media is ripped to a 3x250GB/1x300GBSATA RAID-5 (ubuntu mdadm) array in a
box with an amd64 3800 and 1G of RAM. The box was running along just
fine until (I think this is what happened) the water pump on the water
cooler died. The machine heated-up and shut down to avoid burning
out. I ordered a zalman fan (the water cooler pulled way too much
power) and another gig of RAM (why not? this box was a myth fe/be and might be again).<br><br>The Problem:<br><br>After
installing the fan and the memory, the machine refuses to boot. There
is no video, the post code indicates it's booting, but the HD and
CD/DVD just keep cycling. I have tried just about every combo of
stripped down mobo I can but nothing (other than the cycling drives).
My media remains orphaned.<br>
<br>The Opportunity(?):<br><br>I have every reason to believe the media is safe, if unaccesible. But I don't know what is wrong. So I'm
considering a new setup that would hopefully - keep price down by
reusing componnents (memory, drives (i've got other large sata drives)
and cpu), allow me to recover my media and provide fast (enough)
network accessible storage that is expandable (ala LVM), redundant (ala
raid) and external (ala eSATA, USB, firewire, AoE an enclosure -
whatever). This machine would run slimcenter and mysql (and possibly
some other network services) unless it makes more sense to just pull
all that off to a seperate big/bad cpu/memory only box. or maybe I'm
crazy. I just know I'd like to move to a box whose sole providence is
providing lots of safe, fast (enough) storage using as many parts as I
already have and doing so it such that my media isn't lost (I've had
issues moving raid arrays from one box to another, or even one distro
to another on the same hardware).<br>
<br>Hopefully this isn't too OT or too 'we've all already done that - next".
</blockquote></div><br>No interest? Maybe someone can tell me why this is a non-starter?<br>