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  1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 00:21:12 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    My unknown condition external Blu-Ray drive arrived July 5. Model is a Pioneer BDR-XD07B, so no UHD. Not that it matters, since my intention is to burn data discs.

    ...The drive has shipping firmware, version 1.02.

    Short of it, it works... the reading part, anyway. I have not tested the writing part yet. CDs and DVDs work, but I have no Blu-Ray data disc, but do have a few Playstation 3 discs. Unsurprisingly, those BDs aren't recognized by the player... a bit of a good sign.

    It also tripped my USB 3.0 controller on my laptop, and seems borked since. I would have to reboot it after the data integrity check on the MediaDrive is finished.
    In conversation Thursday, 06-Jul-2023 00:21:12 EDT from web permalink
  2. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 21:55:11 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    WD Drive is fine; 13% hang issue does not show up on the desktop setup for scans. Also clumsy me managed to drop two HDDs during initial second NAS setup.

    Also... seems the ASUS P5N-E SLI board's chipset may be dying; while doing a data integrity run on MediaDrive, the onboard NIC cut out and never returned upon reboot. The network power light was on, however, but negotiation lights... nope.

    That actually may explain the stability issues beforehand. Simply transferring the entire setup to another board (ironically an older nVidia chipset... but PROFESSIONAL) made the network work again... on the nVidia onboard NIC. The board also has a Broadcom NIC, so I opted to use that instead.

    I'm back to doing data integrity checks on the MediaDrive again.
    In conversation Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 21:55:11 EDT from web permalink
  3. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 01:58:13 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Finally erased the Second Generation gaming HDDs, and... now the original WD Blue 1TB desktop drive may actually be showing some issues...

    It hanged around 15% of the zero-fill for ~3 minutes, and also there's some slow-down in a few areas. Yeah, I can see why Sis was having very obvious performance issues, even in Windows 7 in its later stages.
    In conversation Friday, 30-Jun-2023 01:58:13 EDT from web permalink
  4. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 01:38:21 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Okay, this is postponed. Still prepping for the home web server upgrade, however, since a recent file event has happened, there will be a sweep of the entire old set of data on all three 2TB disks first, then the data on some old storage disks later.

    References:
    http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/notice/110
    http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/notice/116
    In conversation Friday, 30-Jun-2023 01:38:21 EDT from web permalink

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    1. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 22:21:43 EDT - Ami Sapphire's Notices
      Going through the older 2TB storage drives and comparing some of the data with the current NAS data, it is safe to assume the data corruption event started around mid-March 2023 and ended around early April 2023, months after the September 2022 upgrade. May 2023 is when the bad sectors were reallocated. Seen this behavior on a suspect hard drive with pending bad sectors in August 2021: on a test Windows XP install using a suspect Seagate 320GB HDD, I copied a large archive to the NAS, then I copied that file to the test system. On the test system, the file was corrupt, even after a few retried copy attempts from the NAS. Of course, on the NAS, it was perfectly fine; hashes matched the one on the laptop but not on the test system. Final attempt was to copy that file to the test system using a USB stick, and that eventually worked. Of course, without file system integrity checks, this is the result. I'm just usually very good at catching these so far.
    2. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 16:26:42 EDT - Ami Sapphire's Notices
      Seems some of Sis's video collection have different file hashes between her old laptop and the file server. This happened before the NAS upgrade in September 2022, so I can rule out my RAID5 setup there. The original copies are still on the old laptop, so I am retrieving those now. But, something's up with the drive installed in the laptop. I have since changed the RAM somewhere around April 2023. I have also found out that I can use unbuffered ECC RAM on the ASUS P5N-E SLI board; however, it may not actually use ECC on the system.
  5. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 20:28:21 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    I also remembered: I also changed the SATA cables as well, though that was before the RAM upgrade, and there were still file corruption issues (though lessened) after the SATA cable replacements.

    Probably a coincidence re: the cables. However, no more noticeable issues after the RAM upgrade. Seems the board has some odd memory quirks...
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 20:28:21 EDT from web permalink
  6. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 17:45:22 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Retrieved the data from the laptop drive and am now copying that data to the server as Unsorted.

    Will leave a note at that directory regarding the new directory and the existing three: that some of the files have different checksums during transfer in 2021 (what we know so far, anyway).

    I now suspect it was possibly RAM related somehow, as there were no known issues with these disks at that time.
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 17:45:22 EDT from web permalink
  7. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 16:26:42 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Seems some of Sis's video collection have different file hashes between her old laptop and the file server.

    This happened before the NAS upgrade in September 2022, so I can rule out my RAID5 setup there. The original copies are still on the old laptop, so I am retrieving those now. But, something's up with the drive installed in the laptop.

    I have since changed the RAM somewhere around April 2023. I have also found out that I can use unbuffered ECC RAM on the ASUS P5N-E SLI board; however, it may not actually use ECC on the system.
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 16:26:42 EDT from web permalink
  8. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 14:40:28 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Fixed the directory paths for PureFTPd...

    Going to have to mirror that directory again after that change.
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 14:40:28 EDT from web permalink
  9. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 14:10:52 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Um... that broke a LOT of shit.

    Most of it was hardcoded to GNUsocial.

    Database had to be edited, its config had to be edited, some redirects throughout the entire site had to be changed through httpd configs.

    MariaDB database path startup script had to be changed as well.

    I wouldn't be surprised if I missed anything else... like the old PureFTPd setup. I cannot recall how to modify this...
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 14:10:52 EDT from web permalink
  10. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 13:25:41 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Finally changing some main paths. Historically, USB drives had a /media directory on Ubuntu; for some reason, hard disks would use this as well. These are finally phased out on this server and will use /mnt as usual.
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 13:25:41 EDT from web permalink
  11. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 13:21:41 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Database is migrated to the main webserver drive, the 2TB one... once again. I am going to destroy the nvRAID where the database once resided and create a new RAID1 instead.
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 13:21:41 EDT from web permalink
  12. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 12:34:26 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    To be fair, the original NAS4Free/XigmaNAS build had no data integrity, either.

    --

    New note on the file server, as written:

    WARNING: THERE IS ZERO FILE INTEGRITY WHEN TRANSFERING [sic] FILES TO THIS FILE SERVER!

    RECOMMENDED PROCEDURE IS TO CHECK FILE HASH BETWEEN SRC/DEST!

    --

    Yes, transferring is misspelled; I only noticed an hour after I wrote the note! http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/gnu-social/public/url/34
    In conversation Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 12:34:26 EDT from web permalink

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  13. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 22:21:43 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Going through the older 2TB storage drives and comparing some of the data with the current NAS data, it is safe to assume the data corruption event started around mid-March 2023 and ended around early April 2023, months after the September 2022 upgrade. May 2023 is when the bad sectors were reallocated.

    Seen this behavior on a suspect hard drive with pending bad sectors in August 2021: on a test Windows XP install using a suspect Seagate 320GB HDD, I copied a large archive to the NAS, then I copied that file to the test system. On the test system, the file was corrupt, even after a few retried copy attempts from the NAS. Of course, on the NAS, it was perfectly fine; hashes matched the one on the laptop but not on the test system. Final attempt was to copy that file to the test system using a USB stick, and that eventually worked.

    Of course, without file system integrity checks, this is the result. I'm just usually very good at catching these so far.
    In conversation Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 22:21:43 EDT from web permalink
  14. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 17:39:49 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Long-awaited site backup and HDD upgrade for the server: July 1, 2023.

    The site data is on a single 2TB drive, while the database is on a mirrored 80GB setup, though the 80GB one will have to be done as software RAID and not nvRAID this time.

    I also suspect nvRAID may have a terabyte bug on this old motherboard, so it's better to use software RAID in the long run anyway.
    In conversation Monday, 26-Jun-2023 17:39:49 EDT from web permalink
  15. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 16:50:40 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    System maintenance is complete for today.

    Server has some of the latest updates.
    In conversation Monday, 26-Jun-2023 16:50:40 EDT from web permalink
  16. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 16:42:53 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    MariaDB: 10.11.2 -> 10.11.4

    System will be rebooted due to a kernel update on the server.
    In conversation Monday, 26-Jun-2023 16:42:53 EDT from web permalink
  17. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Monday, 26-Jun-2023 16:37:10 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Updated the server!

    apr: 1.7.3 -> 1.7.4
    curl: 7.86.0 -> 7.88.1
    openssl: 1.1.1t -> 1.1.1u

    apr-util was recompiled due to apr update
    httpd was recompiled due to apr, openssl, curl update
    php was recompiled due to openssl, curl update

    MariaDB will be updated in a few minutes.
    In conversation Monday, 26-Jun-2023 16:37:10 EDT from web permalink
  18. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 23:21:58 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Finally updated the ColoCrossing IP blocklist for the webserver; ballooned the file from ~8K to ~26K! The list had only been last updated in late 2015. At the time they had an IPv6 range as well. That disappeared in 2016.

    It's unfortunate they polluted a lot of IPv4 space over the years.
    In conversation Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 23:21:58 EDT from web permalink
  19. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 13:37:43 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
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    Seems the file corruption issue no longer occurs after these reallocation events as well. I'll keep watch; will have to get a replacement HDD if it gets nearly bad enough.

    On another note, my main webserver OS drive (where this very microblogging instance is hosted) actually has 14 reallocated sectors from the original 0 over the years... and the original issue was a stuck UNC that a zero-write cleared (and the bad sector count remained at 0). That was back in October 2011, when the server was migrated to Linux.
    In conversation Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 13:37:43 EDT from web permalink
  20. Clarissa Walker (amisapphire@cwcyrix.nsupdate.info)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 21:10:31 EDT Clarissa Walker Clarissa Walker
    Made a schematic and PCB layout of my custom parallel buffered JTAG (Wiggler) device. From a technical standpoint, the schematic and PCB layout are finished, but I keep cleaning up the PCB layout. So far:

    * PCB routing mistakes regarding nSRST - fixed
    * Potential safety issue between the JTAG header and DC barrel jack - fixed
    * via sizes - changed
    * identification text labeling - now present
    In conversation Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 21:10:31 EDT from web permalink
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Clarissa Walker

Clarissa Walker

Detroit, MI

http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info

Hobbyist computer tweaker/repairperson, webmistress, procrastinator. Does things on my own time. Also known as CW Cyrix.

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