rowla.nuxx.net Problems
Oh boy. I don’t need this now:
c0nsumer@rowla:~> dmesg
[...]
ad0: FAILURE - device detached
subdisk0: detached
ad0: detached
GEOM_MIRROR: Device hotbackup: provider ad0 disconnected.
c0nsumer@rowla:~>
No SMART warnings, nothing. On Sunday the disk reported a clean healthcheck with 17970 hours of power-on time. ad2 had 24195 hours reported in the same log file. I’d expect it to go soon, too.
Thankfully ad0 is one of the first two disks on a secondary pair of disks in the box which aren’t critical. I first copy backups to those disks then copy them from there down to my house each night. Having half of that mirror set gone isn’t horrible, but I’ll have to take care of it at some point.
Maybe I’ll just throw one of the 320GB disks I have here on there in its place and finally get around to moving all my backup drives here internally. Time to check prices on new disks at Newegg I guess.
UPDATE: For $120 I can get a 500GB Seagate which would go nicely in my Mac Pro as a backup volume. I could then use one of the 320GB disks it would be replacing it as the hot backup in rowla.nuxx.net. I’d then have a spare 320GB I could leave attached to the Mac Pro via the FW800 enclosure, turned off, as an offline backup of photos.
Or I can leave it and wait until the other half of the hotbackup mirror set (ad2) falls over. The replacement 500GB disk will probably be cheaper at that point and it’ll require no work to be done right now.
This will be decided tomorrow.
You’ve reminded me I need to fix my external drive, I think it’s the usb/firewire enclosure that’s playing up. I really need to sort it out because all my music is on that drive and I need to move my photo library to it because my main drive only has about 600MB left.
I still have to rewrite the backup scrips for my Mac Pro too… I previously had nightly automated backups happening, but not in a while. It’s too risky. :(
I’ve got it working again by using usb2.0 rather than firewire, sometimes it would seem to get into state where I’d have to disconnect the fw and power cycle the drive to get it back. Not sure if there isn’t something a little odd about the fw connection on my mac, I’ve just had both the Mac and the iPod lockup when trying to use it.
I’ve had some really odd problems with my G5 and USB ports, and I continue to have some weirdness with the Mac Pro. On the G5 I’d have USB drives just fail to mount until I plugged them into another port (I think on a different root hub) then back. On the Pro, 50% of the time when putting the machine to sleep it immediately wakes back up with all connected USB mass storage deices disconnected (readers, cards, etc), gives an error about removing things before ejecting them, then reattaches them.
I can’t find any way to reproduce the problem, so I can’t file a bug report. :(