MacOS XXXX!

[Karlos]

@Adz

Are you sure raid wouldn't have helped? You'd have several other drives intact all with the same data on them ;-)

[PMC]

I had a problem with my Amigs running SFS where it threw a guru while browsing the web (IBrowse can be real flaky unless the stack settings are spot on, doh!) and the machine would continually crash upon reboot.  

There was absolutely no way I could access the drive, I couldn't even boot with no startup and view the partition.

The only way I could get my Amiga to boot was to disable the errant drive in the early startup screen or to boot from floppy, whereby the machine wouldn't recognise the drive anyway.  Either way the data was lost as I had to reformat the drive and start from scratch, but hey that just proves the importance of regular backups, right?

Anyway, I discovered the problem was limited to partitions on my Samsung and Fujitsu drives, which repeatedly lunched themselves in a similar fashion.  My elderly Western Digital 420Mb Hdd would happily survive a guru in the middle of a read/write and would boot with no problems.

[adz]

@Karlos

Assuming that, in this case, it is data corruption that has caused the "server" to crap its dacks, then that same corrupt data would have been written to all other drives. Subsequently, you would have a pile of drives with the same corrupt data, no matter what RAID level you are running. Even if the drive had developed bad sectors, more than likely some form of garbled data would have been written to the other drives, hence again you would have pile of useless drives. I was having this exact same conversation with someone else the other day.

Edit...Actually, yes, RAID 1 would be beneficial here, as you would have more drives to play with, without totally loosing everything in the event of a stuff up :-D

[Karlos]

@Adz

Ah. I was thinking more in the line of filesystem errors resulting from messsed up drive sectors. But as you say, filesystem errors resulting from the server bombing out would have shagged the lot.

[adz]

@Karlos

Even still, you need a pretty beefed up RAID card to give at least a degree of protection against bad sectors on a hard drive, look at what happened to AW.net recently, I assume they were using RAID 5 at least.

[Karlos]

Probably a good start would be to use an OS that isn't likely to trash its own disk and then get all petulant about booting when the disk it's done the dirty on is still connected....

Honeslty, it's like a spoiled kid :lol:

[adz]

Honeslty, it's like a spoiled kid :lol:

Find me an OS that isn't ;-)

[AmiGR]

@Neofree

I wouldn't ever buy a Mac with the OS9 {bleep}. Now, with OSX, it's a totally different story, I'm gonna buy one soon. Two button mice ARE supported, there's extensive configuration (even if some is using the console, a world's first for a Mac;-) and the system **IS** fast. BTW, about graphics people, they have a very simple reason. Macs just work. They need nothing else. Another reason is that there are global Gamma and colour calibration settings, something NOT available in win. For musicians and sound people, OSX features the *BEST* sound system on ANY platform. Not to mention the Graphics Core on 10.4... Everyone was talking about using the GPU for pixel accurate image manipulation, Apple goes on to implement it.

And no, Linux does *NOT* cut it for musicians and gfx artists. I'm on linux right now, there's no good program for multitrack stuff and ALSA is seriously {bleep}ed.

[Acill]

neofree wrote:
Mac's Blow chunks.  The One button mouse is the first turn off.  Not to mention not ergonomic.  The UI is "OK" but some things are backwards and configuration is so limited it's sickening.  Why is Mac preferred by graphics people?  I have no idea whatsoever.  An upgraded PC can do anything a Mac can do.  Don't like use Windows? Use Linux.  Mac needs to die.



Thanks,

Neofree

You have no Idea what you are talking about. You can change anything in OSX you want to using Shapeshifter. It can look as goos as the best AmigaOS custom look or better. Dont like the single button? Hey ANY USB mouse you like then. They all work on Mac and with all the functions of a PC. The graphics people like them because they are stable and the hardware is tied to the OS. Unlike Windows and the billions of configurations you could run into. Linux? I think not. OSX is based on BSD. Just about anything that runs on PPC Linux can compile and run on OSX. Have you even used an OSX machine? I mean USED one not just toyed in an Apple store for a few mins.