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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Pirates of Puget Sound SuperSystem.
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First of all I would like to talk a little about what everyone has been
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talking about. The crash of the hard drive. The master volume map got
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destroyed and there was no way to recover the data. We still don't know why it
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happened, there are a couple of things that had happened to prompt it, but we
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just weren't aware of the real problem. About two weeks ago the system started
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freaking out, so we turned off the system and the hard drive for about an hour
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and when we turned it back on it worked. This was the first of the problems.
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The second was that the fan in the hard drive was starting to emit starnge
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sounds, and after a call to the tec's at Davong, we learned that the fan should
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be cleaned every so often. We then proceeded to clean the hard drive, by
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taking the hard drive unit out of the case and clean the fan. Everything
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looked like it was going fine, until we turned it on, the system booted up
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like normal, but during the cold-start boot-up sequence the system came back
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with an I/O error. We turned off the system for a while, and started the boot
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up sequence again, but this time when we turned the system on the hard drive
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it started to print on the screen "DRIVE 1 NOT READY", it was now that we knew
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we were in trouble. We ran the hard drive diagnostic, which said that there
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we no errors with the media. We then ran the hard drive utility program, which
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said the the master CRC count was destroyed, the master map was lost, Drive
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1 was not installed, and some other error messages. We then made the final
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decision to give up trying to fix it, and re-initialized the hard drive, we
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used the back-ups that we had made on Feburary 16. The program was not lost
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because Crazy Pirate was working on the program, and realized that we had no
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back-ups of the program and for some strange reason made one. All we can do
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now is to sweep up what happened, and start from Feb 16. We are now backing
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up important volumes on the hard drive daily, so if something like this happens
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again we will not be set back as far as we were on this crash.
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All of the E-mail was deleted and not restored becuase all of the mail
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would be a month old, plus there would be a lot of dead letters, so we just
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decided it was better to start new and fresh. E-Mail will be backed up daily,
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so don't worry anout your mail being lost again. None of the General files
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were lost. Uploads were lost, so if you can upload them again, it would be
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very much appreciated.
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The second hard drive wil be here within a month, and the new plans for
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the system are being thought of now. A FULL room system will be installed,
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more boards will be added (Floors will be installed so that there will only be
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30 boards per floor), users will be able to create boards if there is space on
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that floor for a new board.
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The multi-caller technology is being developed at this time, if anyone
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can give us any help, leave [F]eedback. The AppleCat driver will be installed
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within the week. The new driver will accept 300/1200 full duplex for those of
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you who have the capability.
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Thanks for calling Pirates of Puget Sound, and we'll see you in a week.
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[] Pirates of Puget Sound SuperSystem []
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[] 206-783-9798 []
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