[Yesterday: ran 10 miles; today rowed 45 minutes]
We had trouble with the radio station computer last Sunday and it kind of fixed itself in the afternoon and I went on with things.
But then today, I was actually doing some work trimming up some poems and the thing suddenly stopped talking to me. So I went out to the shack and saw it was spitting out disk errors.
I had had the same issue last week, but when it started working again I looked at the disk error logs and everything looked fine. So I was pretty much convinced it was the driver or maybe the SATA parts on the motherboard.
So today I swapped the drives into the machine which is doing our streaming. And I got the same error. Really. One of the drives has gone bad to such a degree that it sometimes won’t even talk to the BIOS.
I have two drives and they are mirrored using Linux software mirroring. So I haven’t lost any of my data. I was able to get the system (the same old one I have been using) to boot off the 2nd drive and everything is working now. I have ordered a new drive so that I can rebuild the mirrored set-up.
I was telling my wife, the way a “real” business would do this would be to buy a $20,000 disk array with hot swappable disks. Since I’ve filled up about half of these 3 TB drives, I wish I had a 20 TB disk array. But I don’t 🙁 so we keep moping along on the cheap with Linux dual-drive mirroring.
I don’t know if I’ve said it directly before: Everything on the radio station comes off of the computer. I don’t have a studio or a microphone hooked to a mixer board. So when the computer is out the station has nothing to play.