Down, but Doing Much, MUCH Better

Server Status: Down(ish)

Server Notes
Bought two new hards drives, put them in as standard IDE hard drives, got the "My RAID controller is bad" symptoms, said WTF?!!! Unplugged both drives. AOK. Plugged in one drive, Sorta okay (like it was when I installed Linux last time), said F*@$, went out bought a new 500 watt power supply (replacing the old 330 watt one. Plug in both drives, boot computer, install linux almost flawlessly.

What this means is that my RAID conroller is probably fine. I just didn't have enough powerto drive te computer properly and the hard drives where doing a soft reset. So I think the old drive is fine, and given a low level format, could probably work with no problems. For that matter, other than being in a low power conditions, could probably be used as the thrid drive in a RAID 5 array.

Lumpy does appear to be functioning, and is happily sending out wave after wave of "Delivery Deferred" messages to thousands of incesant spammers. It is also caching many e-mails destined for you and when motoko is properly restored, these will be delivered post-haste.

And my thanks and appolgies go out to Squigy, who, dispite my ignoring him, properly diagnosed this problem months ago (back when I had this problem last time.) I salute you, oh great wise being of computer repair *worships on knees* (a point that many people forget is that computer repair is not where my training lies, I know NETWORK REPAIR, not computer repair. I can only make a programmer and EE's educated guess when it comes to computer repair.)