On 2025-02-21 09:47, jjpurdum via groups.io wrote:
I have the C boot drive which is a SSD, but only 500G, my D drive,
which holds everything and is 1 TB and the drive that died, and drive
F which is a 2T hot-swap backup drive. D no longer shows up in Windows
Explore or the Disk Manager. I'm hoping it's a faulty/dirty connector
*** Does Al have a infrared camera? I saw a video where somebody fixed a dead SSD by imaging it - and quickly finding a shorted electrolytic. The shorted electrolytic got hot, and the camera saw it.
I've been looking at such things, because I have a nice mini-pc
that died. It's pulling down the power supply and the power supply light is blinking. I tested the supply on the bench, and it delivers its rated current, no problem.
Whatever's loading down that supply is surely heating up.
There are approximately a zillion of these things on Amazon. The
main feature I'm looking for is "macro" - the ability to focus on
something really close - like a circuit board.
- Jerry, KF6VB
which I will check when I tear the system down later today. If that
doesn't work, how long in the fridge? If that fails, I'll go over to
Al's and put it in an old system he has and see if that controller can
find it. If that doesn't work, I've lost a tremendous amount of
non-T41 stuff and I'll start shopping for a large pile of kindling and
a very flammable Viking ship.
Jack, W8TEE
On Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:18:23 PM EST, jerry-KF6VB
<jerry@...> wrote:
On 2025-02-21 06:47, jjpurdum via groups.io wrote:
Also, I have other distractions now. At some time yesterday my main
data drive died
*** That sucks. Did it die completely, or just lose data? Sometimes
they
can be read by putting the drive in the fridge.
I have a unique system. I don't keep anything important on my
desktop
PC. Instead, I have a Linux server running the Samba suite that acts
as
a
windows fileserver. I actually have three of those servers; two
active, and
the third being upgraded to a newer Linux. Also, I do an encrypted
incremental
backup to the cloud once a week. The server in use backs itself up to
the second hot server every night.
So far, I've been lucky. Have had some close calls, but never lost
it
all.
My email queue goes back to 1989! Back then I didn't have real
Internet. My PC
ran a program called "UUPC" that dialed up another computer and
transferred mail and
netnews via the UUCP protocol. I had it on a 24 hour timer. In the
middle of the night,
it would come on for a few hours. UUPC was in the autoexec.bat.
- Jerry, KF6VB
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Jack, W8TEE
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