I have spent the evening trying out different Linux live CDs to see if some of them were not having the problem that is plaguing my installed version of Linux: namely that the secondary IDE controller does not seem to be working with DMA turned on. I have found a couple that did not seem to be exhibiting the problem, but I have yet to decide on whether or not I will be changing the distribution I am running yet again. First things first though, I need to backup the data before doing anything to the hard drive. That should be interesting as the CD writer is one of the drives that is having the no DMA trouble.
Work was uneventful; the only thing worthy of note I guess is that the Sun engineer that was supposed to come replace the battery on the storage array (SE3310) could not make it today and instead will come early tomorrow morning.
Good night!
This will be a collection of my musings - when I have some. Although ramblings might be a better description. Whatever happened during my day will most likely be logged here.
From: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
About me: I am a baby-boomer who is now in his second career after spending 10 years in the military. I now work in the computer field, which also happens to be one of my hobbies. I also like to sing, play the guitar to accompany my singing, and play the piano when I practice (which is pretty much never these days)
