Amiga LAN

[Targhan]

Yesterday, I physically lost a harddrive in my Pegasos (looking for the reciept still, I want my money back or an exchange.. grr... It's a Western Digital 40G..)

Anyway, a few weeks ago, I began testing Envoy on the Pegasos under MorphOS. (Between two Pegs).  I began to back all my work related stuff to the other machine.  Now, after the death of this hard-drive, I've began the long road to recovery.  I immediately re-install envoy, and start copying a few files over.

Okay, all the above is lead up... I am in the middle of a large filecopy now, and so far I've copied over 12040 files from one system to the other over the network.  That may not be terribly impressive to some, but I can't help but to be somewhat impressed.  That's a huge amount of files to transfer even on local disks (especially considering that many of them were over 3 and 4M each).  

Ah well, I just thought I'de share this with everyone :-)

[bloodline]

I think you're mistaken Western Digitals don't die. What actually happened?

[Targhan]

Well, it had a bunch of errors on it yesterday morning when I woke up, and when I tried to access it--it made sounds like something from a machine shop.  Finally, the drive didn't sound like it was spinning at all, but I could hear the clicks from the arm (or whatnot).  It's dead.

Now, I wouldn't say that Western Digitals are all horrid, because I've got one in several machines here.  Still, it did make for a rather, erm, unpleasant day yesterday.

[Argo]

I though you said this was an Amiga LAN :-P How can it be called a LAN if the computers are only 1m apart? More like a SAN. hmm, nope, I'm wrong. Just looked it up. If you put both boards in the same case and networked them together, then you'd have an Amgia SAN.
It would be more impressive if you could give bytes/second or a rough estimate of the total size of the 12040 files and how long it took to copy them over the LAN. So, say an average of 3.5Mb each file that's 42140Mb or 42.140Gb (41.1523Gb if you go by 1Gb =1024^3).

[Argo]

I assume it's still under warranty. Too bad warranties don't cover data recovery.

[Ilwrath]

Yesterday, I physically lost a harddrive in my Pegasos

Wow... That must be a really big case you have for that Pegasos........  To physically lose a hard drive.... Well, where did you last see it?  ;-)