Can't access mediatakeout.com?!
Question: for the last couple of days, i have not been able to access my favorite site, mediatakeout.com. It keeps telling me "can't find server". Is it just me or is other readers having the same problem. I am beginning to thin that they closed the site!
Answers: for the last couple of days, i have not been able to access my favorite site, mediatakeout.com. It keeps telling me "can't find server". Is it just me or is other readers having the same problem. I am beginning to thin that they closed the site!
you might BLOCK IT
I got into it just fine it must be you www.mediatakeout.com
Just did it. What a crap!!!
You probably have a parental lock on it or obscenity lock. Did you install any new security for your computer? You probably have to go in under security and grant access to web site.
its still up and running. i had problems with it a few days ago, but its better now. maybe they're just working on it..
I'm assuming you had a R1 W/stripping...else the loss of one mount out of the array would have crashed the data completely.
Regardless, you should have gotten some RAID Manage Software with the on-board type Controller.
Most times, here in the past few instances I've had to deal with such problems, you don't get the rebuild option from the Secondary type BIOS that pops up with regard to the Array. You either get to rename, delete, add or remove a spare, etc...but not the rebuild option.
To get into the rebuild option you'll probably have to be in the OS to do it.
You should be able to replace the offending drive with a working model and then rebuild once you get the OS to start up.
I would not push my luck, if I were you...first replace the drive---or replace the offending drive as is and see if you can do a rebuild. If the offending drive has failed no diagnostics then there could have been some glitch within the boot.ini or MRB....hard to tell...
You are right: This *is* tricky on a forum.
Quite frankly, I'm amazed anyone would do anything less than R5 or R10 for a server---it makes no sense to do so---it is, in my humble opinion, safer to run ONE single disk with periodical imaging or complete copy so that when the one disk fails you have no problem reverting back to an earlier state.
With R5 you simply scrap the old and replace it with a new and let the system rebuild. R10, as wth all mirrors, you break the mirror and then replace the one bad disk as it is highly unlikely you will have catastrophic failure of more than one drive at a time...but even with two going out you still have the second mirror you can default to in a pinch---this being great odds against both the failures, if it happens, would be on the same mirror and, then, even if it did, you?d still have the first to fall back upon---am I making sense to you? You?d have to loose the mirror side of both sets to be at a loss and even then some boot tweaks can have it back and going again..
Something is not quite right in the boot process...this may be because of the loss of the other drive...hard to tell, like you said...
One thing that comes to mind is your power supply could be dropping voltage. A disk will appear to be faulty and incur data degradation when voltage is lost during a write process. The symptoms mimic those that are present when a hard Drive is about to fail or is failing. If there is any age to the power supply then this might be a cause.
If it *is* the power supply, then you won't be able to test it fully without a PWS tester that can give accurate readings while the unit is in use. It is just as easy to up the PWS size with a new one and see if you have the same issue cropping up...if not then I'd lean toward a PWS issue.
A culprit that escapes some good techs is Chip Creep. Over a course of time, the connections will swell and shrink depending on how hot and cold the unit gets---and how quickly for both. This causes actual movement in a physical sense. It can dislodge connections. It used to be a real problem in old units...now it pops up in molerk, and the newer electrical connections that the SATA drives use. You will have a hard time tracking something like this down. You have to go in and physically touch and reseat every electrical connection....not a bad idea regardless.
You may be able to wipe out the old drive with deletion and new format making it a vanilla drive...then put it back in and see if you can do a rebuild. If you put it back in during the current state of the drive then the machine will again try to boot from it and you will be right back where you started. However, by wiping out the drive there is now no longer a boot signature so the machine will then default back to the second drive---you then enter into the OS and use the Rebuild tools that should be installed. If you did not install the tools you can still do so when you get into the OS.
But do not think you can boot to the remaining drive if you change locations. If you did change locations and got it to boot then your offending drive will still have the primary or secondary standing as before and it may just freeze on you.
The best thing to do is leave the working drive in place and repair or replace the offending drive and get back into the OS. If you can't mount the offending drive and have the machine to boot then wipe out the drive and clean it thus making it a "RAW" disk. Then try again. Odds are that this will work.
Good luck on your problem...let this be a lesson...no one should do mirrors in a Server---not unless it is a R1+0 (edit) (R10) *or* R5 or higher---nothing less in redundancy.
email - tyler_huskins_14@yahoo.com
i have been trying to access mediatakeout for a week now and i still have trouble accessing. I have tried from several other computers and it states it can not access the server. I tried all other blog sites and it still will not come up for me. I do not have any blocks, so i think there is something wrong with the page. i try it throughout the day. dayumm! i liked that site.