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| About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them! |
Although I've copied the data from the old RAID5 array to the new RAID1 array I'm still not 100% confident it's safe. I started a final backup of the RAID5 contents to a file, which I intended to upload to one of my FreeBSD servers - just in case I discover in 3 days time that half the files xcopy'd were corrupt.
As usual, nothing goes smoothly.........
NTbackup froze at about 350GB processed out of about 480GB total; both the elapsed and remaining times were not changing. When I discovered this I decided to leave it for a couple more minutes to be absolutely sure of this, but then everything else died: Seamonkey went "(Not Responding)", the hourglass replaced the mouse pointer, C-A-D did not bring up the task manager (although I did notice it caused the HD light to flicker each time I tried it). I had to press reset as there was no way to action a shutdown. Surprisingly, on reboot the Intel Matrix Storage Console decided to verify the RAID5 array, even though it was the RAID1 array that was being written to.
I've upgraded the Intel Matrix drivers from 7.5 to 7.8, as there's a specific reference to that version fixing a crash problem, and I'm trying the backup again.
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