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Friday I heard funny sounds most of the day. After the close my main
hard drive died. Not a problem I think. I have two Serial drives
exactly the same that I use Casper to copy one to the other. None of
that RAID stuff just two drives I copy every week or two. I also have
a IDE drive that has seven backups from Thursday back for a week on
things that change each day or might. Well I unplug the bad serial
drive but the second serial drive wont run either. I pull them out
and the one that should be good has part of the area where the cable
plugs in broken off. So no problem I swap the boards but the board
from the bad drive is the bad part. Well I dug out my trusty
soldering iron and swapped the tiny little plug parts. Boy does that
hurt your eyes. So I get the drive working and bring my small backup
in from the night before then download Friday's data from Esignal and
run out to get a new drive. I got chicken and went to a IDE drive.
Decided the failure rate on Serial drives is too high for me. So the
moral to this story is have a good backup plan that runs automatically
each night and if you are hard on hard drives like I seem to be then
have TWO backups on two drives. Actually I'm going to get a forth
drive again. I used to have four but I keep killing them. One really
cool thing about a serial drive and a IDE backup is most BIOS will let
you swap the boot order on a reboot from the serial drive to the IDE
drive with a couple of keystrokes.
Several people have asked me how I learned to fix things like
Tradestation 2000i. I have to be good at fixing things because I seem
to break everything.
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Best regards,
Jimmy mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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