Apreche's Journal: Audioblog Delayed, /me is sad

I was really looking forward to making my first audioblog post this weekend, but computer "trouble" came up.

Well, of course I never have computer trouble, that's why I put it in quotes. For you computer geeks who love a good story here it goes.

So I re-wired my box today. I had some free time and I wanted to prepare for the new Serial ATA hard drive that is coming soon. Until now, I've had 3 drives like so.

Primary IDE Master - 20 GB - Contains linux /, swap and /boot partitions. Also contains the master boot record (grub) and a small fat16 partition (c:\) which grub points to for booting windows.

Primary SATA - 80GB - 40 GB of this partition is WinXP NTFS. The rest of the drive is the biggest FAT32 partition that you can make filled with my mp3s and other important media files.

Secondary SATA - 40GB - This drive is partitioned also with the biggest FAT32 partition you can make. It has all my video files on it and has a lot of room to spare surprisingly. It actually isn't a SATA drive, it has a converter on it.

So what I did was I removed the SATA converter and put the 40GB drive to the primary slave on the ide controller. My CD burner is all alone as the secondary master on that same controller.

Of course, because I did this windows wont boot. Why is that? Oh because this causes a change in drive letters and windows is dumb as bricks! And of course since windows doesn't have a nice bootloader like grub where I can just change the line to kernel root=/dev/hde1 or some such I can't boot it.

Oh, and Linux wont work either! But that's no fault of linux, but a fault of mine. I was messing around with my kernel recently and I must have made a booboo with the config because after about 10 minutes of operation the whole system freezes. It also may be the new version of NVIDIA drivers I emerged...

Anyway, so I have lots of live cds. I can knoppix for one day until my new drive comes. Then I can back up everything to the big drive and restore. Ooops, Knoppix 3.2 doesn't support my network card OR Serial ATA. Shite. Oh bones! Gentoo 2004.1 doesn't support my network card either! (nforce2, need forcedeth patch or kernel2.6 with forcedeth enabled). So I have to call up my friend who luckily has a knoppix 3.4 cd, yay! More proof that there is power in numbers. If I was a lone geek in a "painkeep" basement I never would have been typing this now.

So I'm glad to say that tommorow I will be backing up all my goods to a giant XFS partition on a 160 gigabyte drive. I'll also be removing that 40GB drive after I back it up so I can put it in my server. It's the only non-Seagate drive anyway so I can't have that in there :P Yes, I am a Seagate fanboy. They are the only brand of drive I have never seen crash (other than an ancient 15MB SCSI). And yes, I know Seagates crash all the time, but I haven't seen it happen.

Anyway, so I went to do the audioblog and all I've got is knoppix 3.4. I guarantee that on Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest I will be capable of talking into my microphone, creating a wave file, encoding it into a very small format and then uploading it.

ph33r.