Tim’s Blog

A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md3.

A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md2.

Of course this happens after I get home, so I don’t have physical access to the computer. Damn it.

My server is back up and running! I just happened to have a couple of extra 250GB SATA hard drives sitting around, so I replaced the old 80GB PATA hard drives with them and setup raid 0 on them. I put some information on what I did on my wiki. I added the hard drives, booted linux on a live CD, partitioned the hard drives, setup raid, and copied all the files over using cpio. Then I updated /etc/mdadm.conf, installed grub on the master boot record and I was all ready to go. Except that I had partitioned the hard drives incorrectly and it took me 6ish hours to figure it out. Then I was ready to go. Thank god for raid.

This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
running on ____.

A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md3.

Faithfully yours, etc.

Crap. There goes one of my hard drives. Hopefully I can get it fixed sometime tomorrow before the other one goes out.

After 752 lines of code, my partner and I managed to write a program in Lisp that plays the game of gomoku. It took several almost-all-nighters to get the job done, but now we have a working program. In the class-wide gomoku tournament today, we won the first 2 games, then lost our third. In our third game our opponents beat us in 22 moves when we went first, and we beat them in 34 moves when they went first. Unfortunately since they won in less moves, they win. Here is the source code, if anyone is interested.