[Rack] so can i work on minotaur
Ben Kochie
ben at nerp.net
Wed Feb 6 07:47:40 UTC 2013
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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