Last night I heard a beeping sound FROM HELL. I thought it was the fire alarm going off or something, but after checking those and seeing nothing, I narrowed the location down to the cupboard where I have my RAID disk things. I hit the off button on the RAID computer, and sweet silence returned.
I didn’t try to investigate further, because the noise was horrific and was probably audible throughout the entire apt building. (And what’s up with that, anyway? The reason you have a RAID setup is so that it’s possible to keep using it even if one of the disks die, but you can’t when it’s making so much noise, and most RAID things make that much noise, and you often can’t switch it off. I think Alanis made a song about that: 🎶 It’s like a RAID box / that you have to turn off 🎶).
Today I took a look at it, and the LSI MegaRaid card doesn’t even show up in lspci. It’s dead as a dodo. And the snap above shows the probable reason: The cooler on the CPU of the RAID card has fallen off! So the RAID CPU is probably cooked?
Anyway. Time to buy a new card… this model is out of production, but it seems like there’s a ton of them on ebay (and cheap, too). Hopefully it doesn’t have to be an exact match — I’m not actually using the RAID bits from the card, but am instead running it in JBOD mode with soft RAID over it: I’ve been bitten by proprietary RAID solutions before.
*crosses finger*
This RAID has all the movies that I rip from blurays and DVDs, so I won’t be able to watch any movies until I get the new card… Well, OK, I do have backup of the RAID, but I don’t want to actually use that to watch anything. I mean, it’s backup — if something happens to it, it’s be even more EEK.
Hardware, eh? Eh?
I guess I’ll have to read comics the next week.