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So this is an update. Been a little while since I posted one, I been doing stuff, and things. That is all

So two weeks or so ago I had a red light show up on my Thecus N299 NAS box..this light indicated something was not good (red usually does). I thought I had lost the 700gb or so of data on there and was most unhappy.

I fired one disk up at the time by attaching it to a sata/ide to usb adapter and thought well the other disk must be the broken one..this was a bad assumption as I found out on sunday when I did the same with the second disk, both the disks were fine I could read the partion table of both and when I fired the disks up seperately on while attached to my mythtv box it seemed to be part of some RAID array. So I downloaded the System Rescue CD, attached the two drives to my main machine and boot it up and at the end of dmesg output (always handy) i noticed two arrays were recognised so I mounted the first one (md0) and it seemed to be the OS for the nas as well as some log files which seem  to indicate the device had detected the filesystem or something on one disk was not all good and removed it from the volume thus breaking itself. I mounted the second array md1 and was able to see all the directories for data on the disk and was then able to copy files off it to another seperate disk (didn’t want to risk ntfs write to OS drive). I didn’t take all the files just the ones I knew I would want in the short term I plan to build a proper file server with redundancy and will copy the rest off when that is built.

So If your Thecus N299 seems to fail I would suggest grabbing down the system rescue CD, attaching the two drives to another machine, booting  the cd and try recovering the data.

On friday I had dinner with a friend and watched some bsg it was good times, after that I watched a movie and finally went to bed at 3amish. On sat I went and saw pineapple express, it was a stoner/action flick and was rather amusing I give it a 3.5 thumbs up Rated: ExBmBrLqNAs. Afterwards Jason andI got some beer went back to his place and watched some mighty boosh and Starship troopers 3 which had crapy sfx and was probably lucky to get a 2 thumbs up Rated: ExGrBmRLBsMgFtMcBbSMAn. Then we went to the RSL and then the coast and I left to get a kebab around midnight I think.

Sunday I bought some more dvd’s Robot Chicken season 2, clerks 2 and a triple pack with some kung fu action. haven’t watched any yet but I will at some stage. There was some more beer and might boosh and another movie and then came home.

it was a good weekend, ashame there was no games because I wanted to play games but my computer sucks

I took the Thursday before Good Friday off and flew down to visit the folks. Gotta say 1hr plane ride then a 2 hour car ride isn’t great but it beats 9hr drive. This country needs some decent rail systems or something and better air coverage of regional areas.

I think a high speed train between towns would be great..not high speed like the XPT is supposed to be (180km/h my arse) high high speed..of course we would need an arse load of new infrastructure to do that.

My long weekend consisted of much austar, talking to parents, some beer, talking to brother, some car travel and some pool it was pretty good. I also had a tasty garlic sausage roll that I want more of.
I got back on Monday and had a great shower to wash the smoker smell off me then went to Raina’s and watched some sga, talked and had pizza!