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HDD recovery going well

By Kristian Fiskerstrand | Web/Server

My Hard Disk Drive recovery is going well and I was able to get the data I wanted from the malfunctioning disk drive. Now it is only time to wait for Dell to finish the shipment of the new server and configure it. The websites scanners-on-linux.com and trond.in are amongst the sites that got back

Sound of a HDD malfunctioning

By Kristian Fiskerstrand | Web/Server

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has released as of now six sound bits to help you recognize Hard Disk Drive (HDD) failures. Couldn’t they have told me about it a bit earlier? Maybe it could have helped to avoid a certain HDD failure I had on my own. Well, the server is located 700km away from

Intel EM64T

By Kristian Fiskerstrand | Web/Server

The processor I’m getting on the server is a 64 bit Xeon processor. This has resulted me reading up a bit about the 64 bit architecture as I’ve only used 32bit systems so far. As far as gentoo goes, I found a wiki entry telling me to use the AMD64 base, as the architecture is