Thursday, 23 December 2004

It's the humidity, yeah I know. But dammit, Brisbane is so uncomfortable. This is what I like about summer in Canberra by comparison, the heat is significantly drier.

We drove to Sydney on Wednesday night after work, and stayed the night with Sarah's aunty, and spent 12 hours driving from Sydney to Brisbane on Thursday.

The drive was uneventful. We took the New England highway route (first time I've gone that way). The traffic was light, the police presence was visible. The trip meter says we've done 1307 kilometres since we reset it just outside of Canberra.

Personalities : [raid1]
md2 : active raid1 hdb2[1] hda2[0]
497920 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active raid1 hdb3[1] hda3[0]
116222144 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid1 hdb1[1] hda1[0]
497856 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

I finally got around to putting a second disk in daedalus, so the degraded RAID1 arrays that I installed it on are no longer degraded. I converted the swap device to a RAID1 array as well. Haven't rebooted yet, just in case something bites me. Given it's nearly Christmas, I don't want the box in a shagged state for potentially a week because there's no one at the colo facility or something.

I just need to mess with GRUB and the BIOS booting so that in the event of /dev/hda going bye-bye the box will boot of /dev/hdb and hopefully life will go on. Then I'll feel vaguely more comfortable with going overseas for an extended period of time. Knowing my luck, the box will then blow its powersupply instead, or something. It's served me quite well. It must be approaching 5 years old.

This was the only part of the upgrade that actually worked. The box rejected the 512M PC133 SDRAM DIMM I bought (I was really hoping it would just clock down to 100Mhz) and the decent IDE cable I bought apparently had a dud connector on it.