{"id":6092,"date":"2004-01-24T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/24\/6092\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:31","slug":"6092","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/24\/6092\/","title":{"rendered":":("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not. Happy.<\/p>\n<p>This 3Ware Esclade 5000-series controller will only create a mirror from identical disks. Not identical *size* disks, but identical disks. Subversion number and all. So, now I&#8217;ve got two Western Digital WD800JB disks that I can&#8217;t create a mirror with, because they were made at different times of the year. Quick fix is to buy a new 80GB, but what do I do with the old one then?<\/p>\n<p>Blah.<\/p>\n<p>In good news, the colocation place looks really nice. I think my server will end up there. They pass all the tests: run by a geek who&#8217;s been around, been in business for a while, fair number of servers, nice guy, not-RBL&#8217;d, well connected, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So, off to fight with the disk controller.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Now FreeBSD 5.2 dumped core when trying to boot in order to install. This might be because I don&#8217;t have any arrays defined. I wonder if I have a set of any old disks I can try this with. Hrm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not. Happy. This 3Ware Esclade 5000-series controller will only create a mirror from identical disks. Not identical *size* disks, but identical disks. Subversion number and all. So, now I&#8217;ve got two Western Digital WD800JB disks that I can&#8217;t create a mirror with, because they were made at different times of the year. Quick fix is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15538,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions\/15538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}