in retrospect…

i recently acquired an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor using the VIA chipset. It supports the Ultra ATA 100/133 Bus Master IDE, a Serial-ATA (SATA) provided by VIA, and an extra SATA onboard controller by Silicon Image, complete with RAID function supporting RAID 0 (striping), 1 (mirroring), and 10 (striped arrays using mirrored arrays).

since i don’t need a striped array (where you have two or more hard disks, but the system sees them as one), i opted to create a RAID 1, or mirrored, array. this will be a high performance mirroring and duplexing array where there is “100% redundancy of data, no rebuild is necessary in case of a disk failure, just a copy to the replacement disk.”

i don’t know why, but i proceeded on creating a software raid (using SuSE 9.1 64) instead of a hardware raid using the SI controller. first thing i did was install the two disks using one of the controllers (remember the VIA and the SI controllers?), and started to boot into YAST (Yet Another Setup Tool) of SuSE. to be continued…

Ciao, baby… 8-)

okay, i have no cellphone starting today, so for those wanting to communicate with me (as if!), you can just access my landline at school (+63 2 8530201 loc 122). sorry guys, but until i get another cellphone (and a new number, darn!), this is the only way… tsk, tsk, tsk…

on my way home last night, i placed my cell in the pocket of my backpack. but when i got to my last ride, i noticed the pocket zipper was open, and wanting a cig, reached in, and found my cell missing…

i hate this, i hate losing all your numbers (i must remember to write them doewn next time), i hate losing contact with you guys… boohoohoo…

i hate this…

Ciao, baby… 8-)