[Rack] so can i work on minotaur

[Nicholas Granado]

woohoo!


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> wrote:

> Ok, box is back up, applied some updates, cleaned up some shit, looking
> good to go.
>
> -ben
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Ben Kochie wrote:
>
>  Ok, took the machine down, pulled the drive, and pulugged into my laptop.
>>
>> Did a fsck, looks ok so far.  Could have been some other issue with the
>> machine, not the drive.
>>
>> I'm making a backup copy of the rootfs.  Unforunately, my USB-SATA
>> adapter does not support SMART.
>>
>> -ben
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Jake wrote:
>>
>>  yeah do that.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Ben Kochie wrote:
>>>
>>>  Ok, if you've saved enough, I'm going to shut it down and pull the
>>>> drive to see if I can get anything off it.
>>>>
>>>> -ben
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Jake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  well i already saved the baron.py and the codes file and parts of the
>>>>> log (which is original since june 2012 when the system went up)
>>>>>
>>>>> i think we should try to save the log just so we can strip out data
>>>>> like how many times a day it was used each day until now and stuff...
>>>>>
>>>>> but those are the only things i think we need.
>>>>>
>>>>> i have to mention that i didn't notice this trouble until i was using
>>>>> this USB to serial adaptor which was messing up, so i was hoping that
>>>>> perhaps now that it's unplugged everything will go back to normal.  If so i
>>>>> apologize for the scare but unfortunately it seems much more likely a
>>>>> coincidence and the hard drive really is going bad.
>>>>>
>>>>> really, in 2013, we still have hard drives going bad?  wtf?
>>>>>
>>>>> -jake
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i put in a USB disk last night and it couldn't even see it, the only
>>>>>>> way i
>>>>>>> was able to rescue stuff was by catting it to the screen and copy
>>>>>>> and paste.
>>>>>>> maybe you know a better way but i wasn't finding anything.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nc ftp scp uuencode nothing worked.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yup -- cat was the only thing that worked for me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> telnet seems to work. emacs also loads up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe cat into telnet into other host?
>>>>>> base64 a static binary, copy-paste it into emacs, and base64-decode
>>>>>> the buffer and save it out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --j
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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